APOLLINAIRE Guillaume. Le Poète assassiné. Paris, Bibliothèque des Curieux, 1916; in-12 of [2]-316-[2] pp, frontispiece, red half-chagrin with corners, spine with four nerves, untrimmed, illustrated cover and spine. First edition. Apollinaire was granted French nationality by decree on 9 March 1916. On 17 March, he was wounded by shrapnel, one of which pierced his helmet and hit the temporal region. Hospitalised at the Quai d'Orsay hospital, he underwent trepanning on 9 May 1916. Le Poète assassiné (The Murdered Poet) was published in October 1916 on alfa-paper with a cover illustrated in colour by Cappiello. The frontispiece features a profile of Apollinaire with a bandaged skull drawn by André Rouveyre. Copy enriched with an autograph signed letter from the poet: A Monsieur Alfred Capus hommage très-déférent de sous-lieutenant Guillaume Apollinaire sous lieutt en traitement à l'hôpital militaire 41 quai d'Orsay Paris. The man of letters Alfred Capus was then editor-in-chief of Le Figaro.