Arthur RIMBAUD

First edition, one of 647 numbered copies on deluxe paper, the only deluxe issue after 109 reimposed copies.

Correspondence collected and annotated by Jean-Marie Carré.

A fine copy.

First edition, one of 42 numbered copies on Japon paper, the leading copies after 8 hors commerce on Chine paper.
Elegant Bradel binding in half black calf over floral paper boards by P. Goy & C. Vilaine, covers preserved (lightly soiled at edges), top edge gilt.
With a frontispiece portrait of the author on Chine paper by Jean-Louis Forain.
One tiny foxing as well as a small, clear marginal dampstain touching frontispiece.
A very good copy nicely bound.

The first edition for large parts of the text, printed in 550 copies with the correct date of 1891 on the title.

Contemporary paper boards with blindstamped floral motifs, spine very slightly browned, brown shagreen title-piece, gilt date to foot of spine, covers preserved.
Biographical press clippings bound in at end, bookseller's description laid down on head of one endpaper, leaving a mark on the opposite page.
This copy is complete with the original preface by Rodolphe Darzens, removed from most copies of this printing.
A good copy in a contemporary binding, which is rare, according to Clouzot.

Complete set of the first quarter published (11 April-12-19 July 1886) of the symbolist journal La Vogue, the most important literary review of the late nineteenth century, containing the first printing of Rimbaud’s Illuminations. Issues 1 - 12, published weekly, were gathered under a quarterly wrapper and offered for sale in September 1886. No deluxe copies were issued for this first quarter of the journal, which had a very limited print run. Copy as published, spine restored, upper corner of the second cover lacking.

First appearance of Rimbaud’s Illuminations in the journal that served as a refuge for the poètes maudits and introduced Walt Whitman to the French readership.

Numerous contributions, including Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, Auguste Villiers de L’Isle-Adam, Charles Morice, Paul Adam, René Ghil, Jules Laforgue, Léo d’Orfer, Stendhal, Charles Henry, Stuart Merrill (translated by Mallarmé), Édouard Dujardin, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Félix Fénéon, Paul Bourget, Walt Whitman, Teodor de Wyzewa, Fedor Dostoevsky, Charles Vignier, Jacques Casanova de Seingalt.

Presented in a grey half-morocco clamshell case, smooth spine, marble-covered paper boards, marbled endpapers; case with grey morocco border, signed by Boichot.

First edition, one of 10 numbered copies on japon paper, the deluxe issue. Very rare and fine copy, entirely uncut.

Extremely rare and fine full-margined copy of the first verses by the poet of the wind-swept feet.

Complete first edition of the first series of the most important literary journals of the late 19th century, containing the pre-publication of Rimbaud's Illuminations. No deluxe issues of this magazine printed, except for five copies of the last issue on Japon.

Bradel bindings in half brown cloth, smooth spines decorated with a central gilt flower, twice ruled at foot, gilt date at foot of first volume, red sheepskin title labels with slight scratches, bent upper spine-ends, rubbed paper boards, original covers preserved for each issue, lower edges rubbed, bookseller's labels pasted to the endpapers of the first volume, contemporary bindings.

First ever printed appearance of Rimbaud's Illuminations published in La Vogue, a periodical which welcomed poètes maudits or “cursed poets” and introduced Walt Whitman to French readers. The journal contains the most important collection of Rimbaud's poems ever published during his lifetime, the majority printed here for the first time.

Numerous contributions, including Paul Verlaine, Stéphane Mallarmé, A uguste Villiers de L'Isle Adam, Charles Morice, Paul Adam, René Ghil, Jules Laforgue, Léo d'Orfer, Stendhal, Charles Henry, Stuart Merrill, Edouard Dujardin, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Félix Fénéon, Paul Bourget, Walt Whitman, Théodore de Wyzewa, Fedor Dostoïevski, Porphyre Kalouguine, Charles Vignier, Alfred Dehodencq, Jean Ajalbert, Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, and Emile Verhaeren.

First edition of Les Hommes d'aujo­urd'hui (33 issues lacking out of 469). Five volumes bound in light blue half-cloth, smooth spines, blue morocco ti­tle labels decorated with double filets, marbled paper boards (4 volumes). The color title pages have been preserved and bound in. Marginal tears without damage to the text (no. 163; no. 165; no. 184, p. 2). Mar­ginal restorations without damage to text on 8 leaves be­tween nos. 214 and 223. Two leaves of no. 224 backed. Mar­ginal tear with some paper missing (no. 345, p.1). Format of quires in the first vol­ume varies; some are trimmed more than others.
First edition of Les Femmes du jour, very rare complete collection in 11 issues published between 1886 and 1892 (the last very rare Réjane issue appeared in 1892, six years after the other 10). Bound in half red cloth, smooth spine, mid­night-blue morocco title labels framed in gilt, gilt title length­wise, marbled paper boards.

An impressive gal­lery of prominent 19th century women and men carica­tured and described by the foremost avant-garde artists and writers of the time.

First collected edition, first in part, on ordinary paper; there were only 25 large paper copies on Hollande.
Original note by Paul Verlaine.
This copy has, as often, the date 1892 on the upper cover and title page.
A good copy.
Spine and covers with repairs as well as small lacks (filled in), two tears and a marginal lack to head of lower cover.