This unusually formatted book is representative of a period of innovative book production in the avantgarde milieu of 1913 Paris. With her husband, Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay-Terk was an exemplar of Orphism: her work infused Cubism with dynamic light and color. Through the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, she met Blaise Cendrars, known for poetry of emotional force and dynamic imagery. The poem illustrated here, a tale of a railway journey on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, is printed on four joined sheets folded once vertically and twenty-one times horizontally to fit into a small wrapper. More than six feet in length when fully unfolded, the edition features Delaunay-Terk’s illustrations reproduced with pochoir.