Dine, Jim. The Poet Assassinated by Guillaume Apollinaire. Illustrations by Jim Dine.

Holt, Rinehart and Wilson, 1968.  First edition, ex-library, illustrated boards with protected dust jacket, rear flyleaf trimmed. Tape shadows on covers from removed tape used to hold former dust jacket protector. New dust jacket protector.  Rear flyleaf excised. Spine label. Little evidence of use.  128 pages.  This book is the first published translation in English of Apollinaire’s masterwork, first published in 1916. The semi-autobiographical book tells the exciting life of a poet called Croniamantal, with veiled portraits of celebrities from French cultural life such as Pablo Picasso. This edition features illustrations by Jim Dine, principally photographs and photo collages.  Predates the introduction of ISBN numbers.  If you see one associated with this book, it is not a first edition.