JOUHANDEAU (Marcel) / COCTEAU. L'Imposteur ou Élise iconoclaste. Les Cahiers verts II. Paris, Grasset, 1950. In-12 (185 x 115 mm). Green morocco, black, fuchsia and leaf green box mosaic spine and boards, edge to edge green morocco lining, lime green moire endpapers, gilt edges, cover and spine, folder, slipcase (M. de Bellefroid / R. Paris gilt). FIRST EDITION. One of 32 first editions on vergé de Montval satiné (numbered 8). Portrait of Jouhandeau by Cocteau. From the Collection des Scènes de la vie conjugale published by Gallimard and Grasset from 1948 to 1959. IMPORTANT - AND AMUSING - AUTOGRAPH ENVOILED FROM JOUHANDEAU TO JEAN COCTEAU occupying the entire title page and featuring JEAN PAULHAN, ÉLISE, JOUHANDEAU, CÉLINE (their adopted daughter) and COCTEAU: "- You forget, they / forget, you forget / the first Marcel, / that you are an / accursed writer," blows me / Jean Paulhan. / (L'IMPOSTEUR)! / What is it, / an impostor? / asks Céline / - Ask your mother. / Élise: - It's a / married man, who / gets his mail / poste restante. To Jean Cocteau / M. Cocteau, a great friend of Élise, had been her best man at her marriage to Jouhandeau. This copy later belonged to Robert Moureau (1907-1983), a former collaborator of the Avant Garde in Louvain, lawyer, politician and one of the great lovers of twentieth-century literature and bindings. It contains, mounted on tabs - a photograph of Élise, her daughter Céline and Belle, the Persian cat, signed R.C. (Robert Chatté, a bookseller specialising in erotica, who was a member of the circle of friends of Jouhandeau, Paulhan, etc.) - a l.a.s. from Jouhandeau to Robert Moureau (19 April 1958; 3 pp. in-12) about this copy (which he was surprised to see circulating since it belonged to Cocteau) and asking Moureau to find a job for his very dear ROBERT COQUET, a young soldier he met on the train from Avignon in 1948 who shared his life for ten years and who inspired L'École des Garçons (1953) and Du Pur Amour (1955). BEAUTIFUL MOSAIC BINDING BY MICHELINE DE BELLEFROID. The boards of the folder and the slipcase are in the famous Kromekote paper decorated using a process she had invented, which enabled her to achieve astonishing effects playing on brilliance and transparency. It was exhibited at the Brussels Universal Exhibition, 1958, Belgian Art section, no. 184; at the Munich International Exhibition of Decorative Arts, June 1959; and at all the major exhibitions devoted to the artist's work (Brussels, March 1963, May 67..., Paris, 1972, etc.). AN EXCEPTIONAL COPY IN TERMS OF ITS BINDING AND PROVENANCE. Provided by Jean Cocteau, Robert Moureau (Bibliothèque littéraire Robert Moureau et Micheline de Bellefroid I, 3 December 2003, no. 332-2).