Description: , Paris, éditions de la Sirène [..], 1919, without pagination [=60 unnumb. pp.]. With 22 (stencil-col.) (full-p.) ills. (of which 3 double-p.) after FERNAND LéGER. Large 4to (ca. 31,5 x 25 cm.), orig. dec. stiff paper wrappers (des. by FERNAND LéGER). ? Mahé I, 440-441. Printed by “Imprimerie Frazier-Soye” (Paris) in 1.225 copies. One of 1.200 Arabic numb. copies printed on “Registre vélin Lafuma”. First edition of a famous early 20th-cent. French “livre d’artiste” comprising a prose text by the Swiss-French author Blaise Cendrars (=ps. of Frédéric-Louis Sauser, 1887-1961) & 22 illustrations (incl. the typographical design) by the French artist Fernand Léger (1881-1955) executed in the “pochoir” technique by “les ateliers de Richard” (Paris). ? Wrappers sl. frayed, spine partly creased/ worn, a few small annotations in pencil on lower cover. Book-block loosening, occ. sl. foxed/ browned, but nevertheless in an acceptable interior condition.