Chirico, Giorgio de--Apollinaire, Guillaume

4to (322 x 240mm.), copy number 30 of an edition of 131 copies, one of 88 copies on papier de chine, signed by de Chirico in pencil at foot of limitation statement, printed in red and black, half-title, lithographed illustrations by de Chirico, in original wrappers and slipcase, loose as issued, slipcase slightly rubbed

The Artist and the Book 57; Rauch 159

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Apollinaire had been an early admirer of De Chirico's work when it was first exhibited in Paris in 1913. "This edition of Calligrammes, with its spacious pages and deliberately eccentric typographic design, seeks to express in visual terms the rhythm of the verse" (The Artist and the Book, p. 46).

For the first edition of Apollinaire's poems, see lot 99.