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1	Confessions of Dan Yack more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Sky more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist 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 $3.54! new only from $9.95! \| first editions
3	Moravagine more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist 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 $6.98! new only from $7.99! \| first editions
4	Shadow more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Marcia Brown (Translator), Th French of Blaise Cend (Translator) add to wishlist "Here the lore of African stories and storytellers that inspired Cendrars is conveyed by strong use of pure color, by eerie wisps of superimposed images, and by strong silhouettes, all in handsome double-page spreads that are remarkable in their composition".--Bulletin, Center for Children's Books. Caldecott Medal; ALA Notable Children's Book. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.75! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Astonished Man more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist 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 $12.87! new only from $12.87! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Denzil Walker (Photographer), Bertrand Mathieu (Translator) add to wishlist The 12 trans-realist prose sketches in Christmas At The Four Corners of The Earth take the reader to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Rotterdam, China, New Mexico, New Zealand, the Ardennes Forest, and the south Atlantic ocean. We meet a one-armed man playing the piano in a small bungalow under the Southern Cross, a Countess who survives the sinking ... see all copies from $4.48! new only from $89.01! \| first editions
7	Anthologie Negre by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $13.00! new only from $32.57! \| SVS
8	Review of Contemporary Fiction-Spring 2004 (Spring 2004) by Severo Sarduy Douglas Glover Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.00!
9	Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Garrett White (Translator), Jean Guerin (Illustrator) add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $27.49! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Shadow: One Man's Quest to Find the Hidden Treasure of the Confederacy more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Marcia Brown (Illustrator) add to wishlist "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 $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| SVS
11	Complete Poems more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Ron Padgett (Translator), Jay Bouchner (Illustrator) add to wishlist An English translation of the complete poetry of the 20th-century French writer. With Guillaume Apollinaire and Max Jacob he was a pioneer of modernist literature, working alongside artist friends such as Chagall, Delaunay, Modigliani and Leger, composers Eric Satie and Darius Milhaud. see all copies from $9.90! new only from $19.33! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Sutter's gold more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Henry Longan Stuart add to wishlist 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 $4.95! first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	To the end of the world more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist 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 $9.49! new only from $14.95! \| first editions \| SVS
14	Sky: Memoirs more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator), Marjorie Perloff (Introduction by) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $64.74! \| first editions
15 view cover	Gold: Being the Marvellous History of General John Augustus Sutter more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist 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 $1.99! new only from $99.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16	Du Monde Entier/Poesies Completes 1912-24 by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $8.50! new only from $15.00!
17	Lice more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $52.95! first editions
18	L'or; la merveilleuse histoire du général Johann August Suter. more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.68!
19 view cover	Gold: The Marvellous History of General John Augustus Su more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Nina Rootes (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $3.19! new only from $4.17!
20	Planus more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $133.00! first editions
21 view cover	Modernities and Other Writings more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Monique Chefdor (Editor), Esther Allen (Translator) add to wishlist 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 $19.79! first editions
22	El Oro/the Gold: La Maravillosa Historia Del General Johann August Suter (Biblioteca Juvenil) by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $10.15!
23	The African Saga more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $145.00! first editions
24	Complete Postcards from the Americas: Poems of Road and Sea more books like this by Blaise Cendrars, Monique Chefdor add to wishlist see all copies from $45.00! first editions
25 view cover	Dan yack more books like this by Blaise Cendrars add to wishlist see all copies from $2.91! new only from $12.87! \| first editions \| SVS

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