Une Saison en Enfer [A Season in Hell].

RIMBAUD, Arthur

Paris: Les Bibliophiles de France / Overseas Booklovers, 1951.

First edition thus. 78, [7] pp. 24.7 x 16 cm (9 3/4" x 6 1/4"). Hardcover. A very good copy. Item #5874

Number 37 of a limited edition of 100 copies printed. With 9 etchings by French surrealist artist, Lucien Coutad (1904-1977), including frontispiece, plus illustrated title page. Rebound in half calf and boards, gilt-lettered spine labels, with original yellow decorative felt wrappers bound in. Rubbing to edges and spine, with a bit of light foxing to front wrapper, and some very faint offsetting. Overall, a very good copy of this seminal work by Rimbaud with a beautiful suite of etchings by one of France's greatest illustrators.