Le Poete Assassine; Lithographies De Raoul Dufy
Paris: Se Trouve Au Sans Pareil, 1926. Dufy, Raoul. First edition. Hardcover. 147 pages. 29 x 23 cm. Limited edition, copy 431 of 580 on sur vellin Montgolfier d'Annonay and printed to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the death of the poet and author by the master printer (maitre Imprimeur) R. Coulouma. Text in French. 36 original lithographs by Raoul Dufy (incl. 18 plates, with tissue guards). The text presents the original short stories of Apollinaire. THE ARTIST AND THE BOOK 92, "The woodcut on the cover is adapted from Dufy's woodcut "Le Cheval" in the 1911 Apollinaire "Bestiaire." MONOD 367. Orig. publisher's gray wrapper decorated and lettered in gilt in the original glassine. Fine in very good illustrated portfolio with black cloth ties. Item #23456
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