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Guillaume Apollinaire, _Case d’Armons (Artillery-carriage compartment for personal effects)_, 1915  
 Book with twenty-one poems reproduced through a gelatin plate process with pasted printed matter and ink on graph paper  
 Publisher: the artist with the assistance of Sergeants Bodard and Berthier, France  
 Edition: 25 (few known copies). This copy contains Apollinaire’s hand-written dedication to his fiancée, Madeleine Pagès  
 Jean Bonna Library, Geneva

Guillaume Apollinaire. Case d’Armons (Artillery-carriage compartment for personal effects). 1915

Book with twenty-one poems reproduced through a gelatin plate process with pasted printed matter and ink on graph paper
Publisher: the artist with the assistance of Sergeants Bodard and Berthier, France
Edition: 25 (few known copies).
Jean Bonna Library, Geneva Audio courtesy of Acoustiguide