Blaise Cendrars, Sonia Delaunay-Terk: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (1913) [FR, EN]

“La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France [Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France] is a collaborative artists’ book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. It features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist’s books as well as modernist poetry and abstract art.” (Wikipedia)

Interview with Cedrars (Michel Manoll, trans. William Brandon, 1950/1966, EN)

Publisher Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux, 1913
200 x 36 cm; folded to 10 x 18 cm
via Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MT Marcelo Gutman

View online, Portions in higher resolution (at Beinecke)
Version at British Library
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English translations
by Donald Wellman
by Ekaterina Likhtik

Gertrude Stein: Descriptions of Literature (1926)

One of the rarest of all Stein’s publications.

With drawing by Pavel Tchelitchew
Publisher George Platt Lynes & Adlai Harbeck, Englewood, New Jersey, May 1926
As Stable Pamphlets series, 2
folded 8-page leaflet
via Internet Archive

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Madonna: Sex (1992)

One of the most controversial books of the 1990s, now long out of print. Wikipedia has an extensive article about its production, reception and legacy. See also a recent, critical comment on the book by Isabella Rossellini.

Photographed by Steven Meisel
Art directed by Fabien Baron
Edited by Glenn O’Brien
Produced by Callaway
Publisher Warner Books, New York, October 1992
ISBN 0446517321
128 pages

WorldCat

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