Guestbook of the Golf of Opio - Lot 221

Guestbook of the Golf of Opio Guestbook dated from October 30, 1923 to December 1933. About 40 pages bound in a volume in-4. Imitation tan basane, spine with five ornate nerves, boards richly decorated with a fan and grotesque irons, interior scrollwork, back covers lined with burgundy floral fabric. Binding very worn, small lack of the lower cap and cracked hinge. This guestbook is a magnificent testimony of personalities who have marked the first half of the twentieth century. We count about 240 signatures, some dedications. Some personalities have signed the book several times, according to their visits. Important figures of literature, fine arts, cinema, music, the signatories are among others: André Gide (twice), Léon Paul Fargue (twice), Jean Cocteau (twice), Marie Laurencin, T.S. Eliot (twice), André Dunoyer de Segonzac, Raymond Radiguet (1 month before his death), Darius Milhaud, Natalie Clifford-Barney, Oscar Vladislas de Lubicz Milosz, Stowitts (Hubert Julian Stowitts), Frances and Eric Phipps (diplomats), Pierre de Lanux, Man Ray, Tristan Tzara (signature plus drawing of a hand), Paul Morand, Louis Fleury (Flutist), Micheline Kahn (harpist), Adrienne Monnier, Sir Charles Mendl (3 times), François Mauriac, Juliette Roche, Paul Valéry, Marc Allégret, Marcel Duchamp etc... Expert : Frédéric Castaing, Paris