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Le Panama, ou, Les aventures de mes sept oncles : poème / Blaise Cendrars.

Accession number
PML 198727
Creator
Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.
Published
Paris : Éditions de la Sirène, 1918 ([Paris] : Frazier-Soye)
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2021.
Notes
Caption title: Le Panama et les aventures de mes sept oncles.
Small design of a woman and astrological figures reproduced on p. [4], facsimile of full-page advertisement for Denver, Colorado, and 25 reproductions of fragments from American railway diagrams, presumably taken from Union Pacific Railroad schedules ca. 1905-1912 (see, e.g., PML 198727.1).
Copies were designed to be folded vertically.
"Il a été tiré de cet ouvrage: 4 exemplaires sur Chine, numérotés de 1 à 4 et signés par l'auteur; 50 exemplaires sur papier vélin d'Arches, numérotés de 5 à 54 et signés par l'auteur; 500 exemplaires sur papier vélin Lafuma, numérotés de 55 à 554; 26 exemplaires de chapelle, lettrés de A à Z et mis hors commerce"--Page [4].
Library's copy numbered 49 of the 50 copies printed on vélin d'Arches, not signed.
Description
[39] pages : illustrations ; 24 x 20 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Stray pencil marks next to the author's list of works.
Binding
Cream printed wrappers, decorated on front with the imprint's siren device; decorated on back with red, blue, and cream design (2 identical columns with t.p. information) imitating the early twentieth-century Union Pacific Railroad schedules; designed by Cendrars and executed by Raoul Dufy.
Classification
Department