The Poet Assassinated

Translated by Ron Padgett. Illustrations byJim Dine. First UK edition, 1968. 4to. Publisher’s pictorial cloth. In price-clipped jacket with same design. 128pp. Slight foxing to prelims and edges. Browning to cloth and jacket. A very good copy. Ron Padgett’s translation of Apollinaire’s prose poem Le poet assassine, originally published in French in 1916. Lavishly illustrated throughout by American artist Jim Dine.