[Rarebooks] FS: Rimbaud's A SEASON IN HELL illustrated with 8 hand-pulled photogravures and SIGNED by Robert Mapplethorpe
Charles Agvent
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Thu Sep 3 12:03:38 EDT 2009
RIMBAUD, Arthur (Robert MAPPLETHORPE). A SEASON IN HELL. New York:
Limited Editions Club, 1986. Quarto (7-1/2" x 11-1/2") handsewn and
handbound in full crimson Oasis goatskin stamped in black. The original
French with the acclaimed English translation by Paul Schmidt on facing
pages. Copy #364 of 1000 numbered copies illustrated with eight
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. Fine in slipcase
with Monthly Letter laid in. $2000.00
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