Season In Hell [LEC] Translated by Paul Schmidt. With photgravures by Robert Mapplethorpe.

New York: Limited Editions Club, inc, 1986. MAPPLETHORPE, Robert; SCHMIDT, Paul. MAPPLETHORPE, Robert. SCHMIDT, Paul, [translator]. A Season In Hell [LEC]. Translated by Paul Schmidt. With photgravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. New York: Limited Editions Club, inc., 1986.

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RIMBAUD, Arthur. [MAPPLETHORPE, Robert]. [SCHMIDT, Paul, translator]. A Season In Hell. Translated by Paul Schmidt. With photgravures by Robert Mapplethorpe. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1986.

Limited edition of 1,000 copies signed by translator Paul Schmidt and photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, this being number 10. Quarto (11 1/4 (truncated) x 7 5/8 inches; 287 x 192 mm). Parallel text in French and English. With seven photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe, each with a protective tissue guard. With the prospectus laid in.

Full red morocco. Front board and spine lettered in black. Previous owner's blind ownership stamp on front free endpaper. In a black cloth slipcase. A fine copy.

"In A Season In Hell Rimbaud identifies Selfless Love as the ideal solution. To be absolutely modern is to remake life, to re-invent love. It is Rimbaud who pays the price for not following the path he lights, for not fulfilling his reason for rebellion. The romantic movement which preceded him also died the death of indulgence. Rimbaud in his own poetry worked his way through the crushing influences of that romanticism, pre-eminently Hugo, Musset and Baudelaire. And in passing beyond them, brought poetry into the Twentieth Century." (from the prospectus)

HBS 69371.

$1,500. (Inventory #: 69371)