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The Poet assassinated / by Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated by Ron Padgett ; illustrations by Jim Dine.

Accession number
PML 195722
Creator
Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918.
Published
[New York] : Tanglewood Press, [1968]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2011.
Notes
Published in trade editions by Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, and Hart-Davis, London.
Originally published in French by L'Édition Bibliothèque des curieux, 1916.
Illustrated with photolithographs throughout text; screenprints on wrappers and slipcase, and an added suite of 8 "pochoir drawings" laid in.
"Printed...by Offset & Buchdruck AG in Zurich, Switzerland, in association with Chanticleer Press, Inc."--T.p. verso.
Order of plates in Library's copy: hand - knife - moon - heart - hat - gun - shoe - lips.
"This deluxe edition consists of 250 copies, signed by the artist and translator..."--Colophon.
Library has copy no. 1.
Description
128 p., 8 leaves of plates: ill. (some col.); 26 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Pochoir plates signed J.D. and numbered in pencil; colophon signed in green ink by Dine, in red ink by Padgett, and in blue ink by designer Elaine Lustig Cohen.
Binding
Unsewn sheets in cream wove paper wrapper with continuous screenprint printed in black, covered in glassine, and issued in cream linen slipcase with continuous screenprint printed in pink.
Classification
Department