A precious little book (by Guillaume Apollinare) I received today

The Amazon Courier knocked on time today on my door to deliver a package containing a book lamp for my Kindle, a cover for my Kindle and a precious little book:

The little book is an article written by Guillaume Apollinaire in 1918 and published on Mercure de France,  n° 476, 16 april 1918.

What could I say about Guillaume Apollinaire that you don't know already (or can read on Wikipedia)? The man who coined the term "cubism" and started the Surrealism before the Surrealism actually existed was one of the most important intellectuals of the beginning of the 20th Century. As an artist, I read his essays and articles as I started watching and studying Art. Paris, in the first decades of the 20th Century, was the world capital for Art, Theatre, Music, Ballet. Apollinaire was one of the key players of that age.

But, as I say, you can read about it everywhere. About the book I purchesed and received today, it is just the reprint of a short article. 

The article is "Objects forgotten inside books". It is a list of anecdotes about, as you guess, things forgotten in books, like letters, little objects, banknotes and so on.  

It is a list. Something the Surrealist literature will use longly in the following decades and the Oulipo will make a literary genre. (There are lists' lovers today too: http://www.echolaliste.com/)

In addition, I'm happy to have such a beautiful little book: it is printed on high quality paper and each edition is numbered. It is an Art object in many ways. :)