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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.
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$1291.60 + 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
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.
(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.
Price: US$1937.41 + 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
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.