Arthur RIMBAUD

First edition, now rare.
Modern Bradel binding by Boichot of brown paper boards with gilt floral motifs in a turn of the century style, brown shagreen title piece, covers and spine preserved.
Introduction and notes by Paterne Berrichon, as well as the facsimile of a letter from Ménélick to Rimbaud.
A very good copy in a very attractive binding.

First Edition printed on Navarre alfa alone draw with Holland 100.
Signed autograph André Breton doctor Garmonec "... his health in a range of cut granite ..."
Pleasant specimen illustrated on the cover of a reproduction of an original elithographie Henri Rousseau.

First edition printed with 253 copies and for which it was not drawn from great papers.
This book is quite complete of the three inset portraits of T. Corbière, A. Rimbaud and S. Mallarmé drawn on China.
Many of Arthur Rimbaud's most famous poems appear here for the first time, including "Voyelles".
Ex-libris L. Ponet pasted on the back of the first board.
Very discreet restorations on the back.
Our copy is presented under a shirt half morocco burgundy, combed paper plates, golden date tail, smooth back and a case bordered with maroon burgundy, flat combed paper.
The copies of "Poets cursed" in this condition, as published, are extremely rare.

Critical edition with introduction and notes by Henri Bouillane de Lacoste on ordinary paper.
Handsome copy.
Provenance: from the library of André Rolland de Renéville.

First edition.
Richly illustrated.
A very good copy retaining its plastic rhodoid jacket.

First edition.
Other contributions by Rémy de Gourmont "Entretiens sur le vers libre et Gustave Kahn" ["Conversations on free verse and Gustave Kahn"], Théodore Duret "La guerre de 1870-71" ["The war of 1870-71"], Stendhal "Consultation pour Banti" ["Consultation for Banti"]...
Minor worming to boards.

First edition.
Full soft grey mouse-colored paper boards, spine stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by M. Coulon "Moréas dévoilé", O. Uzanne "L'Art graphique et figuratif de Monsieur Ingres", P. Berrichon "Rimbaud chez les Parnassiens : sa liaison avec Verlaine", R. Martineau "Flaubert à Chenonceaux", R. de Gourmont, E. Herpin "Les Tiroirs de Chateaubriand", R. Schwab "Maeterlinck, le sage des jours ordinaires", P. Quillard, Saint-Alban "Le Nu au théâtre", A. Paupe, F. Mauriac "Enfance", Péladan "Philosophie de la volupté", Rachilde, P. Louis "Le Double prolétariat antique", A. Spire, E. Pilon, L. Dumur "L'Ecole du dimanche".
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First edition.
Contemporary binding in full flexible grey mouse-colored cardboard, spine lightly stained, original wrappers preserved, contemporary binding.
Contributions by P. Louis "L'élargissement du monde", R. Schwab "Marcel Schwob, le maître au masque d'or", E. Koeeberlé, Ricciotto Canudo "Gabriele d'Annunzio ou la vie moderne", J. Blum "Samuel Butler", G. Batault "Essai sur la sensibilité contemporaine", P. Berrichon "Sur les origines et l'enfance d'Arthur Rimbaud", Rachilde, J. de Gourmont, C.-H. Hirsch.
Handsome interior condition.
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