Rimbaud, Arthur

Une Saison en Enfer.  Brussels: Alliance Typographique, 1873



12mo (7 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.; 184 x 150 mm).  Publisher's wrappers printed in red and black, bound in.  Black morocco jansenist binding, spine gilt-lettered and in six compartments, edges gilt, bright red morocco doublures, black moiré silk liners, by  Alix (signed on upper doublure).  Marbled slipcase, morocco-edged; some wear.

BNF, En français dans la texte, 1990, no. 299; Carteret ii, p. 271

12mo (7 1/4 x 5 7/8 in.; 184 x 150 mm). Publisher's wrappers printed in red and black, bound in. Black morocco jansenist binding, spine gilt-lettered and in six compartments, edges gilt, bright red morocco doublures, black moiré silk liners, by Alix (signed on upper doublure). Marbled slipcase, morocco-edged; some wear.
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First edition of the only work ever published by Rimbaud himself.  One of about 500 copies printed. Paul Verlaine later published Les Illuminations (1886) without Rimbaud's knowledge.

Une Saison en enfer was written when the poet was only twenty years old and his intense relationship with Verlaine was unravelling.  These prose poems serve as a spiritual testament and a synthesis of his poetic experience.

A pristine copy in a very fine binding.