CENDRARS (Blaise). Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques. Paris, Au Sans pareil, 1919. Large in-8, blue morocco decorated with a mosaic of black box and textured paper, decorated smooth spine, imitation wood paper lining and endpapers, gilt head, cover and spine, folder and slipcase (Leroux). First edition decorated with a portrait of the author by Amedeo 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 These nineteen poems have appeared in various magazines, often foreign, and exhibition catalogues; three are unpublished.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 40 copies on hollande, second paper. Fouché, Au Sans Pareil, n°4.