Lot no. 125
CENDRARS (Blaise). Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques. Paris, Au sans pareil, 1919. Large in-8, paperback. First edition, decorated with a portrait of the author by Modigliani. These nineteen poems have appeared in various magazines, often foreign, and exhibition catalogues; three are unpublished. Portrait and Construction evoke the painters Marc Chagall and Fernand Léger respectively. One of the 10 first copies reprinted on old japon à la forme (n°9), the only one with the 40 hollandes containing a second portrait of the author by Modigliani. A very rare copy on Japon as issued, complete with the two portraits of Cendrars by Modigliani. Fouché, Au Sans Pareil, n°4.
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