The Poet Assassinated

Translated by Ron Padgett. Illustrations byJim Dine. First UK edition, 1968. 4to. 128pp. Publisher’s pictorial cloth. In jacket with same design. Slight foxing to cloth and page-edges. Toning to jacket; slight chipping to extremities. 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.