La Poète assassiné.

Paris: L'Edition Bibliotheque des Curieux. 4, Rue de Furstenberg, 1916.

Price: $950.00


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First edition. Frontispece drawing of the author by Rouveyre. 316pp. 1 vols. 8vo. White pictorial wrappers by Cappiello. Endpapers moderately foxed, front cover mended at hinge, shallow chip on spine and 1 1/2-inch chip on rear cover; last fifty pages of text have two small puncture marks, affecting rear cover as well, otherwise text and binding quite fresh and clean. Very good.

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Cyril Connolly writes of Apollinaire: "By-passing Mallarme, Apollinaire returned to simpler and fresher forms in the style of Laforgue--and Villon. His imagery is dazzling, his vitality prodigious, his poetry, like Eliot's, both memorable and musical." The author died in 1918, two years after the publication of this novel.