HAARDT (Georges-Marie) - AUDOUIN-DUBREUIL (Louis). The Black Cruise. Citroën Centre-Afrique Expedition. Paris : Librairie Plon, [1927]. - In-4, stiff parchment, African dancer painted on the first cover, smooth spine decorated with a painted decoration, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (period binding). First edition at 2500 copies, of the second automobile raid organized in Central Africa by André Citroën and led by Georges-Marie Haardt and Louis Audouin-Dubreuil from October 28, 1924 to June 26, 1925. It succeeded the one organized in the Sahara in 1924-1925 and preceded the one that took place in Asia in 1931-1932. The edition is illustrated with ornaments drawn by Georges Tcherkessof, the reproduction in frontispiece of the painting of Iacovleff representing the members of the expedition, a portrait out of text of André Citroën, Georges-Marie Haardt, Louis Audouin-Dubreuil and the commander Bettembourg according to the drawings of Iacovleff, of numerous photographs out of text, reproduced in rotogravure according to the shots taken during the voyage, and of 4 maps of which 3 in colors. One of the 2000 copies on Alfa paper, enriched with a signed autograph letter from Georges-Marie Haardt addressed to Pierre Plessis: "To Pierre Plessis, // As a token of the return of the Black Cruise // and in very cordial testimony // Georges-Marie Haardt // 1928" Pierre Plessis offered it later to Mrs. Roger Galtier, with this dedication: "To Mrs. Roger Galtier // who will make my library // a children's room and so that this beautiful book // remains in the house // Pierre-Plessis." Nice copy in a painted binding of the period. Soiling to the binding. Soiling and stains to the cover. Provenance : Pierre Plessis. - Mrs Roger Galtier.