APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). - Lot 59

APOLLINAIRE (Guillaume). Contemporains pittoresques. Paris: La Belle page, [1929]. - In-12, 200 x 153: portrait, (2 blank ff.), 100 pp. (6 ff. last two blank), printed cover. Paperback, lined cover. Posthumous first edition of this collection of articles by Apollinaire on some of his contemporaries: Raoul Ponchon, Alfred Jarry, Ernest La Jeunesse, Remy de Gourmont and Jean Moréas. A second part contains "Anecdotes by Willy on Catulle Mendès". The frontispiece features a portrait of Apollinaire by PICASSO. Edition of 360 copies. This is ONE OF 15 HEAD COPS ON IMPERIAL MANUFACTURING JAPON, NUMBER 1, containing 4 states of the portrait (on chine barré, on chine (x 2) and on japon). A very well preserved copy, despite the slightly faded spine.