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1	Moravagine more books like this by Blaise Cendrars At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch--except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for ... see all copies from £8.31! new only from £9.69! \| first editions
2	Complete Poems more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Ron Padgett (Translator), Jay Bouchner (Illustrator) Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full range of his poetry--from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor--offers a challenge no translator has accepted until now. Here, for the first time in English translation, is the complete poetry of a ... see all copies from £10.33! new only from £15.77! \| first editions
3	To the end of the world more books like this by Blaise Cendrars Blaise Cendrars' (1887-1961) final novel from 1957 is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination. The story races between Foreign Legion barracks in North Africa and the theatres, cafes, and police headquarters of post-war Paris. Therese is a bawdy ... see all copies from £10.74! new only from £14.52! \| first editions
4	Sky more books like this by Blaise Cendrars In France, Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), a friend of Chagall, Leger, Picasso, Braque, Picabia, and Modigliani, has emerged as one of the great figures of modernism. Together with Apollinaire, he brought cubism to French poetry. Anais Nin hailed him as "one of France's best writers, " and the Village Voice called him "the Indiana Jones of French ... see all copies from £8.03! new only from £11.06! \| first editions
5	Confessions of Dan Yack more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Alan Brown (Translator) see all copies from £2.04! new only from £2.69! \| first editions
6	The Astonished Man more books like this by Blaise Cendrars Cendrars recounts the Foreign Legion (including the loss of his arm), his exploits in Africa and South America, and his encounters with everyone from Gallic gipsies to Piquita, the Mexican millionairess. To all his encounters he brings the vitality, savage humor and vivid observation that characterize his dazzling writing. see all copies from £2.69! new only from £2.69! \| first editions
7	Modernities and Other Writings more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Monique Chefdor (Editor), Esther Allen (Translator) Blaise Cendrars was the pseudonym of Frederic-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), a Swiss-born poet and novelist. A contemporary of Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and a friend of Chagall and Modigliani, he must be reckoned with as a prophetic voice. Of all the avant-garde writers, he was the one most attuned to our age; hence the title of this collection of his ... see all copies from £27.26! first editions
8	Dan yack more books like this by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £2.08! new only from £2.27! \| first editions
9	Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Garrett White (Translator), Jean Guerin (Illustrator) Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper "Paris-Soir". Already a well-known poet, Cendrars was a celebrity journalist whose perceptive dispatches from the American dream factory captivated millions. These articles were later published as "Hollywood: Mecca of the ... see all copies from £7.73! new only from £13.47! \| first editions
10	La banlieue de Paris more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Robert Doisneau see all copies from £49.20! new only from £49.20!
11	Sutter's gold more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Henry Longan Stuart 1926. Decorations and designs for this book are the work of Harry Cimino. Johann August Sutter! Once that name was magic. How many today remember its significance? Yet there are few chapters in the chronicles of American adventure more thrilling than his spectacular career. A poverty-stricken immigrant haunted by dreams of great achievement, he ... see all copies from £6.21! first editions
12 view cover	Shadow: One Man's Quest to Find the Hidden Treasure of the Confederacy more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Marcia Brown (Illustrator) "Shadow lives in the forest . . ./It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires./It even likes to mingle with the dancers". But in the African experience, Shadow is much more, an eerie image that shifts between the beliefs of the present and the spirts of the past. Brown's stunning collages, inspired by her travels in Africa, evoke the ... see all copies from £5.88! new only from £6.60!
13	Sky: Memoirs more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator), Marjorie Perloff (Introduction by) see all copies from £5.54! new only from £12.62! \| first editions
14 view cover	Gold: Being the Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter more books like this by Blaise Cendrars Cendrars (1887-1961), a friend of Chagall, Picasso, Braque and Henry Miller, has emerged as one of the great figures of modernism--"the Indiana Jones of French literature," as the "Village Voice" dubbed him. "Gold," published in 1925, is his most poetic and compact work. It is a fable of the discovery of precious ore and the destruction of its ... see all copies from £5.54! new only from £59.45! \| first editions
15	Bourlinguer. by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £7.55! new only from £12.89!
16 view cover	Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Bertrand Mathieu (Translator), Denzil Walker (Photographer) Prose sketches--that are not traditional Christmas stories--set in Paris, Rio, Bahia, China, New Mexico, New Zealand, and the Ardennes. see all copies from £8.26! first editions
17	Anthologie Negre by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £10.22! new only from £10.22!
18	Review of Contemporary Fiction-Spring 2004 (Spring 2004) by Severo Sarduy Douglas Glover Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £5.54! new only from £6.93!
19	Lice more books like this by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £21.50! first editions
20	L'or; la merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter. more books like this by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £5.54! new only from £9.16!
21	L'Or by Blaise; Renard Cendrars, Jean-Pierre see all copies from £7.63! new only from £8.48!
22 view cover	Gold: The Marvellous History of General John Augustus Su more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator) Blaise Cendrars's 1924 novel is a work of breathless pace, fantastic humor, and soaring invention. Gold is based on the true story of the bankrupt Swiss paper-maker who abandoned his family and made his way to America to seek his fortune. He acquired a huge tract of land out west over which he held sway and was on the point of becoming "the ... see all copies from £5.04! new only from £15.93!
23	Du Monde Entier by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £2.15! new only from £14.56!
24	The African Saga more books like this by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £56.13! first editions
25	La Main coupée by Blaise Cendrars see all copies from £7.15! new only from £27.10!

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