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Arthur RIMBAUD

Une saison en enfer

Alliance typographique (M.J. Poot & Cie) , Bruxelles 1873, 12,5x18,5cm, broché.

First edition published in small numbers and Copyright account. Slight trace of marginal fold in the first flat foot, a small tear in foot glued back, rare and anecdotal foxing. Of great rarity, the first edition of A Season in Hell is a major bibliophile room for several reasons: one book published by the will of Rimbaud, a young unknown poet of nineteen years, discrete volume published at Copyright was never paid by Rimbaud. The printer therefore almost entirely preserved the draw that was forgotten in the workshop (Arthur Rimbaud received only a dozen copies available to his friends). The stock was found in 1901 by a bibliophile who blasted 425 copies in beautiful condition, and destroyed the rest, damaged by moisture. The curious composition of the book is also a remarkable feature of this valuable edition: no cover page and title or concluding pages (eg text begins abruptly after coverage ends and the same), the 17 white pages interspersed here and there in the book, and of course the shells and misspellings that throughout the text are all sights studied by scholars. C. Bataillé devotes an important article in the Journal of Literary History of France (2008/3-Vol. 108) and concludes that editorial will perhaps authorial presides over this amazing layout. Sought and are collected all very early bibliophiles, this legendary edition was generally connected luxuriously and remains today very few copies "as published".

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