APOLLINAIRE Guillaume

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APOLLINAIRE Guillaume
AUTOGRAPH MOCK-UPS FOR THE PUBLISHER EUGÈNE FIGUIÈRE. Circa 1913. 3 pages in-8. Three pages of ink models by Guillaume Apollinaire for the books published by the publisher Eugène Figuière, of which Apollinaire was collection director. In these models in the form of advertisements appear "Les Peintres Cubistes" by Apollinaire, "Du Cubisme" by Albert Gleizes and Jean Metzinger, "Henri Rousseau" by W. Uhde, "Puvis de Chavannes" by Maurice Raynal, and forthcoming publications such as: Rymsky Korsakoff by Blaise Cendrars, Honoré Daumier by Max Jacob etc. (a few tears in the margins, not affecting the text). [APOLLINARY Guillaume]. FRANCE ON TRIAL ABROAD. ANECDOTAL LIFE. SIGNED AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT. Copy by Maurice Raynal. 3 pages in-8. End of July 1911. Autograph copy in ink, probably from the hand of his friend Maurice Raynal, 3 pages on 3 sheets, on the back of subscription forms of the magazine "Le Festin d'Esope" directed by Guillaume Apollinaire. The manuscript is titled "La France jugée à l'étranger, Paris vu par un habitant de Chicago", THE CORRECTIONS AND SIGNATURE ARE BY THE HAND OF APOLLINARY GUILLAUME. On this document are two signatures in the hand of Apollinaire: Lucile Dubois and Guillaume Apollinaire, Lucile Dubois being one of Apollinaire's pseudonyms. This text was published in the August 1, 1911 issue of the magazine Le Mercure de France. "Paris is a city of cafés, you will often come across a block where the cafés follow one another without interruption on Boulevard Montmartre, for example. In winter, as in summer, the terraces are crowded with coffee and sweet water tasters... but what attracts the visitor's attention in Paris is the Parisian woman, the woman. And even the Parisian one is not authentic, but usually the foreigner from Vienna, Hungary, or some other nation..."
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