APOLLINAIRE, Guillaume. Le Poéte assassiné. Paris: "L'edition", 1916. Octavo, 313pp. First edition of what is probably the major prose work by this founder of the 20th century avant-garde, a loosely knit novel of the life and death of Croniamantal, Apollinaire's larger-than-life alter ego. The book's Rouveyre frontispiece depicts the poet in hospital headdress after his head wound in the First World War and counterpoints the stunning cover illustration by Capiello of an injured horseman bleeding from the forehead. A near fine copy in publisher's illustrated wrappers. Scarce.

• Category: History - Culture - Art - Philosophy - Literature
• Keywords: French Literature
• Language: Deutsch
• Inventory number: 790LB

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