Title: Little Black Stories for Little White Children, Translated from the French of Blaise Cendrars Author: Cendrars, Blaise Place: NY Publisher: Date: 1929 Description: Bianco, Margery, translator. Little Black Stories for Little White Children. Translated from the French of Blaise Cendrars (NY, 1929) First American Edition. Pictorial cloth binding, rebacked. 138pp. Illustrated with striking Art Deco woodblock drawings by Pierre Pinsard some full-page and multi-colored. A French novelist and poet who influenced the Parisian Modernist and Futurist art movements of the 1920s and ‘30s, Cendrars had an early fascination with Black Africa. Originally published in France, this retelling of “stories which the big children of Africa tell around the fire at night to amuse themselves and to keep watch against the beasts who roam” was ground-breaking in its sympathetic and non-racist respect for African folk culture. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good Item number: 248081
Title: Little Black Stories for Little White Children, Translated from the French of Blaise Cendrars Author: Cendrars, Blaise Place: NY Publisher: Date: 1929 Description: Bianco, Margery, translator. Little Black Stories for Little White Children. Translated from the French of Blaise Cendrars (NY, 1929) First American Edition. Pictorial cloth binding, rebacked. 138pp. Illustrated with striking Art Deco woodblock drawings by Pierre Pinsard some full-page and multi-colored. A French novelist and poet who influenced the Parisian Modernist and Futurist art movements of the 1920s and ‘30s, Cendrars had an early fascination with Black Africa. Originally published in France, this retelling of “stories which the big children of Africa tell around the fire at night to amuse themselves and to keep watch against the beasts who roam” was ground-breaking in its sympathetic and non-racist respect for African folk culture. Lot Amendments Condition: Very good Item number: 248081
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