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Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, illustrated with photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe each with tissue guards Limited to 1000 copies printed this copy #297 and signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt. A fine copy bound in full dark red morocco with no fading to the spine, enclosed in publisher's cloth slipcase, also fine.
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$977.50 + shipping
Description: Photos by Robert Mapplethorpe, 11.5 x 7.75", scarlet leather, 87pp, hinges a little loose else a beautiful copy in the original black cloth slipcase; with the LEC Letter included. LIMITED TO 1000 NUMBERED COPIES (this is copy #229), SIGNED BY THE TRANSLATOR, PAUL SCHMIDT, AND THE PHOTOGRAPHER, ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Quarto, 87pp., illustrated with eight photogravure plates by Robert Mapplethorpe. A fine, fresh copy in the publisher's full crimson leather binding, and publisher's black cloth slipcase, also fine, just a tinge faded at the very front of the opening; less faded than often seen. LEC letter laid-in. A handsome, gift-quality of a stunningly beautiful book. Mapplethorpe's photogravures have a rich, elegant texture that simply doesn't come through in digital photography. A book that must be held to be appreciated. This is number 305 of 1000 limited copies SIGNED by Mapplethorpe and translator Paul Schmidt on the limitation page.
Seller: Cleveland Book Company, ABAA, Rocky River, OH, U.S.A.
Rimbaud, Arthur. A Season in Hell. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1986.
Price: US$1080.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Bound in publisher's original red morroco with cover and spine stamped in black. One of 1000 numbered copies designed by Benjamin Shiff and printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress. Illustrated by Robert Mapplethorpe from photogravure plates made by Jon Goodman. Translation by Paul Schmidt. Signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt. Fine in a fine black cloth slipcase as issued. LEC monthly newsletter laid in.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
RIMBAUD, Arthur (Robert MAPPLETHORPE). A SEASON IN HELL. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1986.
Price: US$1187.50 + shipping
Description: Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin leather stamped in black. The original French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. One of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with 8 hand-pulled dust-grain photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe printed in two colors on handmade paper and SIGNED by the photographer and the translator. "Of the arresting photographs used to illustrate the book, several of the images rank among the photographer's most famous" (The American Livre de Peintre 30). Monthly Letter laid in.
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1272.02 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A beautifully produced book fully leather bound in a cloth slipcase. Photogravure plates of Mapplethorpe's images. Produced on handmade paper. Signed by the translator of Rimbaud's seminal work. Signed by Robert Mapplethorpe. no.160/1000 We are happy to provide pictures on request
Seller: Zimnol Arts Books, Middx, United Kingdom
Price: US$1355.35 + shipping
Description: Translated by Paul Schmidt, first edition of translation. xii; 87 pp., quarto., original red morocco, black lettered spine and front cover, black cloth slipcase, with 8 plates (photogravures) by Robert Mapplethorpe; parallel texts in French and English. Slipcase bleached by the sun, the book itself is in very good condition. - - - BITTE BEACHTEN SIE: Auf Grund der besonderen Versandkostenvorgaben von AbeBooks und ZVAB (der Preis richtet sich nicht nach Gewicht, sondern nach Anzahl der Artikel), kann es bei schwereren oder mehrbändigen Werken zu höheren Portokosten kommen. BEI UNSICHERHEIT FRAGEN SIE UNS BITTE ZUVOR AN. - - - PLEASE NOTE: Because of AbeBooks' and ZVAB?S special requirements for shipping fees (price is per item, not per weight) shipping charges may be higher with heavy books or when comprising several volumes. PLEASE CONTACT US BEFOREHAND IN CASE OF UNCERTAINTY. - - - 950 g 1
Seller: Antiquariat Im Seefeld / Ernst Jetzer, Zürich, Switzerland
Arthur Rimbaud. A Season In Hell. Limited Editions Club, 1986.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: He is the poet of rebellion.the greatest of all, said Albert Camus of Arthur Rimbaud. Rimbaud had staked everything on expressing God and the infinite in this poetry. When this wouldn't work, he resolved, in A Season in Hell, to leave God's love behind and to keep his personal freedom at all costs. But Rimbaud is unable to remake life, to re invent love, and pays the price. The original text appears in French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing pages. In the art of Robert Mapplethorpe, as in the poetry of Rimbaud, Man's exploration of his being leads to both darkness and divinity. Seven photogravures by Mapplethorpe illustrate the text with a shared knowledge of the passage through the dark side of the soul. Seven photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. Translation and Introduction by Paul Schmidt. Edition limited to 1000 numbered copies. Each book signed by Robert Mapplethorpe and Paul Schmidt. To preserve the delicate tonal changes and the richness of Mapplethorpe's original photographs, the photogravure plates are printed in two colors: an alizarin black with a surface roll of yellow tint on paper from Cartiere Enrico Magnani, in Pescia, Italy, hand made for the photogravures. The book is bound in red Nigerian Oasis goatskin and the slipcase is covered in black linen, lined with ultrasuede One Volume, 7½ x 11½. As the publisher, we unconditionally guarantee that all books are authentic and the condition is As New (NOS).
Seller: The Limited Editions Club, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1400.00 + shipping
Description: 87 pages. 29 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 63 of 1000 signed by Schmidt and Mapplethorpe, with LEC Letter laid-in. Eight photogravures by Mapplethorpe protected with tissue guards. Text in English and French. Schmidt's translation of Rimbaud's "Complete Works," first published by Harper and Row in 1975. The livre d'artiste images by Mapplethorpe are his own interpretation of mystical, nocturnal melancholy of the Rimbaud work. Printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress in Gill's perpetua type. Text of mould-made paper with prints hand-made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Owner card front cover pastedown. Full maroon goatskin lettered in blind. Fine in fine lined slipcase
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
(Robert Mapplethorpe) RIMBAUD, Arthur.. A Season in Hell.. Limited Editions Club,, NY:, 1986.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bilingual text: French and English. Translated by Paul Schmidt. Illustrated with eight photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. Fully bound in red Morocco leather with black lettering. This copy is number 289 of a limited edition of 1,000 copies. SIGNED by the photographe r and translator. Publisher's Monthly Letter laid in. A bit of trace foxing on top edge of the text block, else fine in a near fine slipcase.; 87 pages B00IX45PPA
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
Arthur Rimbaud, illus. Robert Mapplethorpe. A Season in Hell. Limited Editions Club, NY, 1986.
Price: US$1908.03 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Arthur Rimbauds incendiary, hallucinogenic and ground-breaking prose poem A Season in Hell, translated by Paul Schmidt and illustrated with photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. Bound in decadent red Morocco, this is a Fine first edition thus published by the Limited Editions Club in New York in 1986.
Seller: CASSIUS&Co., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$1908.03 + shipping
Description: First edition thus, number 76 of 1,000 copies signed by the illustrator Robert Mapplethorpe and the translator Paul Schmidt in pencil. The text is printed in parallel French and English versions. Mapplethorpe's illustrations "display a certain visionary quality" (Classe, p. 1168). In the translator's introduction, the poet, actor, and librettist Paul Schmidt (1934-1999) comments that Rimbaud's poem "is a work of adolescent passion - not the passion of exuberance, but passion as suffering. It is the record of a failed attempt to create a new identity by creating a new world. Passion is universal, yet some particular facts may help to explain Rimbaud's feelings, to illuminate the smoky density, the nerve-edge screams, the sulphurous flicker of this little book" (p. vii). Schmidt also published a translation of Rimbaud's complete works in 1975. Originally self-published by Rimbaud as Une Saison en Enfer in 1873, this prose poem was finished in a frenzy after the break-up of his relationship with Verlaine, who wounded him with a revolver in the summer of that year. Olive Classe, ed., Encyclopedia of Literary Translation into English, vol. 2, 2000. Quarto. Original red morocco, spine and front cover lettered in black. Housed in the publisher's plush-lined black cloth slipcase. With 8 photogravure plates with loosely inserted tissue guards, as issued, by Robert Mapplethorpe. Faint scratches to front cover, slipcase lightly rubbed, else a fine copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
RIMBAUD, Arthur. A Season in Hell. Limited Editions Club, New York, 1986.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Translated by Paul Schmidt. Frontisoiece and duotone photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. 87pp. Tall 8vo, bound in full crimson morocco, cloth slipcase. New York: The Limited Editions Club, (1986). A fine copy. Limited Edition, one of 1000 numbered copies, signed in full by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$3231.69 + shipping
Description: Translated by Paul Schmidt. With Photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. New York, The Limited Editions Club 1986. Mit acht Fotogravuren. 0 Weinroter Originalziegenlederband mit schwarz geprägten Titeln. Im gefütterten Originalleinenschuber Eins von 1000 Exemplaren. Im Druckvermerk von Künstler und Übersetzer signiert. Buchgestaltung von Ben Shiff. Breitrandiger Pressendruck auf Bütten, Druck der Fotogravuren auf handgeschöpftem Kupferdruck-Papier, beides von Magnani. ***** In original slipcase signed by Artist and translator. Full wine-red leather. A mint copy ! *******Limited Editions Club, New York, 1986. leather_bound. Mapplethorpe, Robert (illustrator). First edition thus. 87 pages. 29 x 19.5 cm. Limited edition, copy 63 of 1000 signed by Schmidt and Mapplethorpe, with LEC Letter laid-in. Eight photogravures by Mapplethorpe protected with tissue guards. Text in English and French. Schmidt's translation of Rimbaud's "Complete Works," first published by Harper and Row in 1975. The livre d'artiste images by Mapplethorpe are his own interpretation of mystical, nocturnal melancholy of the Rimbaud work. Printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress in Gill's perpetua type. Text of mould-made paper with prints hand-made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani. Owner card front cover pastedown. Full maroon goatskin lettered in blind. Fine inf fine lined slipcase. Sprache: Englisch. *** Bitte kontaktieren Sie mich immer BEVOR Sie bestellen! Für ausführliche Beschreibungen und Bilder sowie günstigere Versandoptionen kontaktieren Sie mich bitte per Email! Please contact me always BEFORE you order! For detailled descriptions and photos as well as cheaper shipping options please send an email! ***
Seller: Antiquariat CoBrA, Oberrohrbach, Austria
Arthur Rimbaud. A Season in Hell. The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1986.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: One of 50 presentation copies out of series signed by Mapplethorpe and the translator Paul Schmidt. Total edition of 1,000 copies printed at Wild Carrot Letterpress in Hadley, Massachusetts. The text has been set in 14 point Monotype Perpetua at Out of Sorts Letterfoundry. The photogravure plates were made by Jon Goodman. The paper used for the text is a mould-made letterpress sheet. The photogravures were printed on a hand-made etching paper, with both papers made at Cartiere Enrico Magnani. The book was bound by and the slipcase was made at the Jovonis Bookbindery. A pristine collector's copy in the publisher's lined slipcase.
Seller: Wiggins Fine Books ABAA, ILAB, SNEAB, Shelburne Falls, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$17500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Full morocco folio, approximately 14.25 x 10.5 inches. One of only 40 portfolios containing the original photogravures produced by Mapplethorpe for the Limited Editions Club edition of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. Each photogravure numbered, initialed and dated in pencil by Mapplethorpe, all tissue-guarded. Completely fine. Black cloth folding panels inside holding a letter press sheet containing the complete set of Mapplethorpe images: eight dust-grain photogravure plates, loose. The images are all as new. A stunning set, printed in two colors -- black wiped onto the etched area and yellow rolled onto the surface as a final step in preparing the plate for printing. Mapplethorpe explores both Rimbaud's life (the gun image referring to when he was shot by Verlaine) and his own difficult relationship with Catholicism. Very rare and very beautiful.
Seller: Blue Sky Rare Books, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.