CENDRARS (Blaise). - Lot 154

Lot n° 154
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CENDRARS (Blaise). - Lot 154
CENDRARS (Blaise). Moravagine. Novel. Followed by Pro domo: How I wrote "Moravagine", an unpublished text and an afterword by Blaise Cendrars. Paris : Bernard Grasset, 1956. - In-12, 187 x 118 : 308 pp, (6 ff. last blank), printed cover. Paperback. New edition in part original, revised and corrected by the author. Copy on publisher's paper, with this autograph letter signed by Cendrars on the false title : to Jean de Wenger // very cordially // Blaise CendrarsThe writer Jean de Wenger (born in 1925) received the Biguet prize from the French Academy for his book L'Europe, un destin voulu . Enriched copy with an autograph letter signed by the author addressed to Jean de Wenger, one page in-12, dated a "Tuesday 20" of 1956 (according to the postmark). Cendrars thanks Wenger for his article in the last issue of Jeunesses Littéraires Françaises. "It is very well thought that it is full of things that leave the doors open. Before the war, when I went to America, I left my car parked in front of my house in the country. The door wasn't even locked. Today, I can't even get home. Someone else has stayed there instead of me. And the house is locked. What can I conclude? Nothing, except to laugh at the laws that allow this. A sign of the times. " Faded spine, a few marginal tears on the cover . Provenance : Jean de Wenger, with a letter from the author.
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