APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). - Lot 135

APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). Calligrammes. Poems of peace and war (1913-1916). Ondes - Étendards - Case d'Armons - Lueurs des tirs - Obus couleur de lune - La tête étoilée. Paris: Mercure de France, 1918. - In-8, 221x136: 205 pp. (1 blank), printed cover. Dark brown chagrin, first board decorated with a cubist composition mosaic of olive, havana and blue chagrin, and blond box, smooth spine, gilt head, untrimmed, cover and spine preserved (modern binding after a model by Oscar Gauthier). First edition of Apollinaire's second major poetic collection, containing his most beautiful war poems composed between 1912 and 1917, illustrated with a woodcut portrait of the author by Jaudon after Picasso. Copy bearing the fictitious mention of "Second edition", this one numbered 1527. The "achevé d'imprimer" is dated April 15, 1918. Interesting modern binding with cubist decoration. A note on the first white leaf informs us that it was produced in December 1974 from a model specially made by the painter Oscar Gauthier (1921-2009), who had been a pupil of Othon Friesz. A very well preserved copy. The paper is neither damaged nor brittle.