(SURREALISM) Apollinaire Guillaume Calligrammes; Poèmes de l

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INSCRIBED TO RAYNAL (SURREALISM.) Apollinaire, Guillaume. Calligrammes; Poèmes de la Paix et de la Guerre (1913-1916). Frontispiece portrait of Apollinaire by Picasso, wood-engraved by R. Jaudon. Tall 8vo, original printed wrappers and glassine dust jacket, chipped aloong spine ends and a few other edges; pages browned, hinges tender. Paris: Mercure de France, 1918

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number 289 of the first trade edition of his last work. inscribed in calligraphic style to maurice raynal and initialled g. a.: "Fume longtemps ô Maurice, mon souvenir et ces poëmes dans ta longue." Apollinaire died in Paris on November 9 in the great influenza pandemic of 1918. The typographically experimental Calligrammes, his record of his war experiences in concrete poetry, was published a few months before his death on April 15.