Rimbaud (Arthur) A Season in Hell.
£425
Translated by Norman Cameron…and the original French text…
London, John Lehmann, 1949.
First UK edition, first impression. 8vo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 15s.
Rimbaud’s semi-autobiographical prose poem sequence, written at the age of 18-19 following the breakdown of his relationship with Verlaine. It constitutes a spiritual and artistic reckoning, a hallucinatory confession, rejection of his own poetic ambitions and farewell to literature. The Keith Vaughan lithographs provide the perfect accompaniment to the sequence, defining this edition as a significant illustrated book
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Lengthy critical note in red biro to front free endpaper; cloth very good; jacket with chip near foot of spine, otherwise very good.
8 lithographs and jacket artwork by Keith Vaughan.
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