Alliance typographique (M.J. Poot & Cie)

Une saison en enfer [A Season in Hell], Alliance typographique (M.J. Poot & Cie), Bruxelles 1873, 12,5x18,5cm, original wrappers under a slipcase and chemise with inner flaps.
First edition published in small numbers at the author's expense.
'As-issued' copy, with some usual inevitable pale foxing to the edges and covers. The book is housed in a slipcase signed by Julie Nadot, reproducing the cover and spine, also protected by a set of inner flaps.
This very scarce first edition of A Season in Hell is a major collector's piece on several counts: it remains the only work published by Rimbaud himself, then a young unknown...

Une saison en enfer [A Season in Hell]
Alliance typographique (M. J. Poot & C^ie) Bruxelles 1873 | 12,5 x 18,5 cm | full morocco and custom slipcase

First edition published in small numbers at the author's expense.
Binding in full black morocco elaborately decorated in blind, original wrappers preserved, half black morocco slipcase, outstanding binding signed Semet & Plumelle.
This very scarce first edition of Une saison en enfer is a major collector's piece on several counts: it remains the only work published by Rimbaud himself, then a young unknown 19-year-old poet. He eventually never honored his debt towards the...

Anecdotal and insignificant foxing affecting the margins of three leaves.
First edition published in small numbers at the author's expense.
This very scarce first edition of Une saison en enfer is a major collector's piece on several counts: it remains the only work published by Rimbaud himself, then a young unknown 19-year-old poet. He eventually never honored his debt towards the printer. The latter therefore kept almost the entire print, subsequently forgotten in the workshop (Arthur Rimbaud obtained only a dozen copies offered to his friends). The stock was found in 1901 by a bibliophile who retrieved the well-preserved 425 copies and destroyed the...

Une saison en enfer [A Season in Hell]
First edition published with a small number of copies and at the author's expense.

Binding in full black morocco, plates adorned with a dense decor of blue, violet and mauve pieces of mosaic morocco as well as pieces of red and blue box, all being crossed by a tangle of gilt blind tooled fillets, mouse grey box endpapers, covers and spine preserved, all edges gilt, chemise in half black morocco in stripes, pearl grey box boards, black felt interior...