Rimbaud 2004 02 27 from Jay Dillon Rare Books + Manuscripts

Geneva: Pierre Cailler, 1948   ¶ FIRST EDITION / ÉDITION ORIGINALE of Verlaine's charming prose sketches of Rethel and Vouziers, two towns in the Ardennes between Reims and Charleville. These were published originally in six installments in a Charleville daily 1882-83; but Verlaine never published them in book form, nor do they appear in his posthumous Oeuvres completes 1899-1902 &c. These pieces… Read more about this item

Memmingen (Bavaria): Edition Curt Visel, 1973     ¶ AN ORIGINAL LINOCUT SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, depicting a man imprisoned in a tower or pergola surmounted by a giant octopus, set in a volcanic wasteland relieved only by a peacock lower right. The accompanying text, interestingly, omits Rimbaud's last line -- "Ce n'est rien! j'y suis! j'y suis toujours" (It's nothing! I'm here!… Read more about this item

Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc / L. Giraud-Badin,, 1927 ¶ ONLY EDITION OF THE FIRST DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF RIMBAUD; comprising transcriptions of title-pages, collations, justifications de tirage, and detailed publishing histories of the twelve éditions originales of Rimbaud's works published 1873-1923, including variant readings (June/July 1873) for Une saison en enfer (October 1873) and the variant texts of five… Read more about this item