L'Esprit Nouveau: Numero Special Consacre a Guillaume Apolliaire (No. 26)

Paris: Editions de L'Esprit Nouveau, 1924. Original wraps. Very Good +. In its original decorative wrappers, unpaginated, with 1 lithograph by Louis Marcoussis and 16 black-and-white illustrations. French text (exclusively), with some facsimiles of letters by Apollinaire. This, the special Apollinaire issue, with contributions by Paul Dermee, Fernand Divoire, Fernand Fleuret, Yvan Goll, Louis Marcoussis, Francis Picabia, Pablo Picasso, Roch Grey, Tristan Tzara and others. Founded in 1920 by Amedee Ozenfant and Charles Edouard Jeanneret (better known to the world as Le Corbusier), the magazine "L'Esprit Nouveau" promoted the art movement "Purism", with a new emphasis on clean geometrical lines and new technologies and materials. Purism reached its peak with Le Corbusier's design for the Pavillion de l'Esprit Nouveau (Pavillion of the New Spirit), built for the 1925 International Exposition of Decorative and Industrial Arts in Paris. A sharp copy, clean, bright and VG+, with small, neat tape and light wear at the foot of the spine. Signature of Churchill Lathrop (1900-1996), renowned art historian at Dartmouth, on the front free endpaper.