Ombre de Mon Amour [Shadow of My Love]

Lausanne, Pierre Cailler, (September 30) 1947.
1 vol. (120 x 190 mm) of 171 p. and [2] f. Bradel wove paper with frame, decorated on the front cover with an openwork Plexiglas plate under which appears the title embossed on a sheet of gold paper, spine with false ribbing, pastedowns and endpapers of wove paper, wrappers and spine preserved (binding signed by Albert de Jaerger, 1950).

First edition posthumously published. Frontispiece, portrait of the author by Picasso and photographic portrait.
One of the numbered copies on chamois vellum.

We apologize for the imperfect translation generated by Deepl for the purposes of the show.

First publication of the poems to Louise Coligny-Châtillon, known as Lou, most of which appeared in the letters she received from the poet between 1914 and 1918. These poems remained unpublished for some thirty years after Apollinaire’s death, and only a few fragments were known, which appeared in the collection Calligrammes. These 76 magnificent poems extracted from the letters are finally published here; the complete edition did not appear until 1955 under the title Poèmes à Lou. It was followed, in 1969, by Letters to Lou. He is responsible for a number of large medals cast for the Monnaie de Paris (those of the ENA, the National Order of the Legion of Honor, and the National Order of Merit) and an equally major number of busts and portraits. His work as a bookbinder is rare.