CENDRARS, BLAISE (TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH BY HENRY LONGAN STUART) — Sutter's Gold

New York, NY: Harper & Brothers, 1926. 1st Trade Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Harry Cimino. Color and B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good condition and is missing the dust jacket. The spine end and corners of the boook covers have some rubbing and bumping. The spine ends also have some beginning nicking. The illustrated paper covered boards have noticeable rubbing and wear. The text pages are clean and bright. The illustration on page 130 is missing. "After the war, Cendrars became involved in the movie industry in Italy, France, and the United States. Cendrars' departure from poetry in the 1920s roughly coincided with his break from the world of the French intellectuals, summed up in his Farewell to Painters (1926) and the last section of L'homme foudroyé (1944) , after which he began to make numerous trips to South America ("while others were going to Moscow", as he writes in that chapter). It was during this second half of his career that he began to concentrate on novels, short stories, and, near the end and just after World War II, on his magnificent poetic-autobiographical tetralogy, beginning with L'homme foudroyé. " (from Wikipedia). Very Good .