Description
“We are like distant stars
Who send their light to each other…”.
The secrets poems by Apollinaire to Madeleine.
Very rare uncommercialized first edition, printed at 16 copies
of these famous poems of erotic inspiration
from Apollinaire to his fiancee Madeleinewho he planned to marry in 1915,
and whom he never saw again after being injured.
An attractive copy bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
Apollinaire, Guillaume. Poemes secrets a Madeleine.
Paris, 9 novembre 1949.
8vo, blue morocco, blue silk, blue silk inlaid on covers, gold title on blue leather piece in the center, author and golden title on the back, gilet top edges, covers and back preserved, case.
Pierre-Lucien Martin.
225 x 166 mm
Very rare uncommercialized first edition of these famous secret poems of erotic inspiration Apollinaire sent to his fiancee Madeleine he was planning on marrying in 1915 and whom he never saw again after being injured.
Printed to only 16 numbered copies on Auvergne paper.
Our copy numbered 8.
These famous poems of erotic inspiration were addressed by Apollinaire from the front-line of the war to his fiancee of Oran, Madeleine Pages, whom he planned to marry in 1915, and whom he did not see again after being injured.
1915, Guillaume Apollinaire takes the train to Nice. He meets a young woman, Madeleine Pagès. The two travelers speak about poetry. This will become a great epistolary history, of an incredible freedom.
Carried by the sentimental survival instinct of men on the front-line in the war, Apollinaire gave birth to an inflamed love.For a young woman he barely knew. He composed the Poems to Madeleine in the fury of the trenches, always sent with his letters, in the form of «secret poems».
If the correspondence of Guillaume Apollinaire to Lou is universally known, that of Madeleine and her more secret stories are of exceptional sensitivity, which pulverizes the courtly poetry of her eroticism as crazy as modest.
An attractive copy bound by Pierre-Lucien Martin.
