Poésie d'aujourd'hui...

Jean Epstein. La poésie d'aujourd'hui, un nouvel état d'intelligence. Lettre de Blaise Cendrars. Paris: Éditions de la sirène, 1921. First edition, Kraft Roux issue, limited to fifty numbered copies, of which this is lucky number thirteen. Octavo (7.5 x 5.625 inches; 190 x 143 mm; bulk of the text measures .75 inches, compared to .375 inches in the trade issue). [2, half-title (limitation on verso)], [2, title-leaf (copyright on verso)], [2, dedication (note to the rear on verso)], [2, contents], 215, [1, blank] pages. A few in-text illustrations by Claude Dalbanne, including the title-page decoration also printed on the front wrapper. Publisher's binding in the original illustrated wrappers, printed in orangish-red and black; top edge rough-trimmed, others untrimmed; no endpapers. Backstrip and margins very faintly tanned; spine with a couple minor vertical creases; spine ends very gently worn with a short (about one-quarter inch) closed tear at the base of the front panel fold; cov