Léger, Fernand--Cendrars, Blaise

square 8vo (190 x 180mm.), copy number 124 of 355 copies, text printed in red, 5 illustrations by Fernand Léger (2 plates, 2 illustrations, printed in red or blue, and a cover illustration in blue and yellow), original wrappers, SIGNED BY CENDRARS twice on the half-title, in card folder and slipcase

Paul Lombard (editor of the Surrealist magazine La Rue), inscribed to him by Cendrars, December 1918; Jacques Lecat, inscribed to him by Cendrars, 7 July 1951

Condition is described in the main body of the cataloguing, where appropriate
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A work on the horrors of war, a collaboration between two men who had served in the trenches together, and the first book to be illustrated by Léger. For another work by Cendrars and illustrated by Léger, see lot 109.