Le Panama ou les Aventures de mes Sept Oncles
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...
