Between the Covers

Softcover. Quarto. Measuring 8.5" x 11”. 12pp. Illustrated mimeograph pages printed in red and black ink. Text in French. Year 2, Number 22 printed January 1st, 1916 during World War I. Near fine with a few tiny tears on the last page and the spine reinforced.

The title of the mimeograph is based on the Maghreb brimless cap with a tassel and straight sides, a type of fez worn by French North African regiments in various colors. There is an illustration of a man wearing a chechia holding the statue of Winged Victory on the front cover. The text emphasizes that the journal is produced by mimeograph at the front, “connected with all the frocks by barbed wire."

There are several poems and short stories with illustrated line drawings around them, the main topic being about the war. Roughly translated it reads: “The borrowing of victory, To reject the monster in his hell, Of this bandit who desolates it, To liberate France, it takes more than iron, And everyone hastened to pay his abolishment.” A political cartoon on the last page that shows a grotesque version of a German soldier holding a large egg with stars and stripes, resembling Uncle Sam with “German Easter Egg,” written above.

An interesting and scarce World War I French mimeographed magazine. *OCLC* locates no copies.

Item #417334