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Le Panama ou les Aventures de mes Sept Oncles
191887198Paris: Editions de la Sirène 1918. Fine. "" C'est le crach du Panama qui fit de moi un poète !"" It was the Panama crash that made me a poet! Editions de la Sirène Paris 1918 19 x 23.50 cm broché First edition one of 500 numbered copies on Arches laid paper. Work illustrated with 25 American railroad route maps. Spine skillfully restored discreet crease marks to corners. Superb livre-objet like the Prose du Transsibérien which was composed in the same period the poem is presented folded. The second cover in bright red executed by Raoul Dufy resembles the railway timetables that one slipped into one's pocket: ""Le nom de Cendrars orne une bouée de sauvetage associant l'auctorité d'avant-garde au travail de sauvetage dans une décennie marquée par les catastrophes maritimes du Titanic au Lusitania"" The name of Cendrars adorns a life preserver associating avant-garde authority with rescue work in a decade marked by maritime disasters from the Titanic to the Lusitania Sophie Esch. Rare early autograph inscription signed and dated December 1918 on this text by Blaise Cendrars to Georges Le Cardonnel literary critic who co-wrote with Charles Vellay La Littérature contemporaine a survey conducted among French critics writers and poets. The year following the inscription he would sign a review of J'ai tué in la Minerve française. Editions de la Sirène unknown
