APOLLINAIRE Guillaume. Lot n° 3

AUTOGRAPH MODELS FOR THE PUBLISHER EUGÈNE FIGUIÈRE. Circa 1913. 3 pages in-8. Three pages of mock-ups in ink by Guillaume Apollinaire for books published by the publisher Eugène Figuière, of which Apollinaire was collection director. In these mock-ups in the form of advertisements are "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 publications to be published such as: Rymsky Korsakoff by Blaise Cendrars, Honoré Daumier by Max Jacob etc. (a few tears in the margins, not affecting the text). [APOLLINAIRE Guillaume]. FRANCE JUDGED ABROAD. LA VIE ANECDOTIQUE. AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT SIGNED. Copy by Maurice Raynal. 3 pages in-8. End of July 1911. Autograph copy in ink probably in 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 THE SIGNATURE ARE IN THE HAND OF GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE. On this document, appear two signatures in Apollinaire's hand: 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, and you will often find yourself in a block of houses where the cafés follow one another without interruption on Boulevard Montmartre, for example. Winter and summer alike, the terraces are crowded with coffee and sugar water tasters... but what first attracts the attention of the visitor to Paris is the Parisian woman. And even the Parisian woman is not authentic but usually the foreigner from Vienna, Hungary, or some other nation..."