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First edition (only edition), signed by the curator. Seventy-two pages, fourteen full-page and seven half-page color illustrations. OCLC (WorldCat) 1032263573. Not in Parsonage.

Oxford: at the Clarendon press, 1937     ¶ FIRST EDITION of the first serious study of Rimbaud's career in East Africa 1881-91  =  ÉDITION ORIGINALE de la première étude sérieuse sur Rimbaud en Afrique de l'Est 1881-91; notable especially for Starkie's discovery of unpublished documents in the Foreign Office (London) suggesting that Rimbaud had been involved in the slave-trade -- a question still hotly debated today, eg by Petitfils (1984) 84n, Robb (2000) 390-92. Bibliography, pages [154]-155; index of names, [157]-158.  This is an unusually attractive copy, nicely preserved in its original dust-jacket and VERY SCARCE in such condition. (Series: Oxford studies in modern languages and literature.)   ||| Collation: 222 x 138 mm: 84 leaves, paginated [i-v] vi [vii-viii], [1] 2-158 [159-160].  Illustration: Full-page map.  Binding: Publisher's oxford-blue cloth lettered in gilt, plain wove endpapers, no… Read More

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! I'm still here) -- which is perhaps to be understood from the illustration itself. This print was originally issued as a supplement (Beilage) to the German graphic-arts periodical Illustration 63: Zeitschrift für die Buchillustration (1964-    ).   ||| Collation: In 2 (260 x 200 mm): Two leaves, paginated [1-4] (ie, not paginated).  A bifolium of machine-made wove paper, unmarked, loose as issued.  Contents: [1] linocut (202 x 156 mm) printed in black, signed "Strauchmann" in pencil lower right;… Read More

Oyster Bay (New York): Feral Books, 2001   ¶ ONLY EDITION of a charming anthology gathered together as a medium for "The remarkable collage images of John Digby[, which] are rich in associations that demonstrate man's ancient links with the sea. Using archival and library sources, he has found and utilized colorful antique illustrations from nineteenth century and earlier publications that show humans of diverse cultures in their many ocean-going pursuits. As a basis, he uses outlines of fish that contain within them and sprouting from them miniature ships, sloops, smaller craft, and shipwrecks." (Dudley, page [278].) The text consists of 101 poems and prose extracts arrayed in seventeen "keepsakes" or fascicles (parts) each illustrated by two or more "collages" or vignettes by Digby, together with three additional fascicles, viz: [18] Water voyages: A note on the keepsakes [by] Joan Digby, [19] The maritime collages of John Digby [by]… Read More

In: Historia (Paris, 1955-  ) no. 242 (January 1967), pages 120-31     ¶ ONLY EDITION: This is the original magazine whose cover inspired the American artist Jim Dine to embark on his extraordinary series of nine Rimbaud portraits 1971-73, now very scarce and highly prized. In an interview with Thomas Krens (1976), Dine recalled that he had been "impressed by Rimbaud first as a still life. The Rimbaud series began several years ago when I found a French popular history magazine in a bookstall on the quai in Paris. The cover of the magazine had a portrait of Rimbaud, probably by some nineteenth-century academician [but in fact after Carjat 1871/2], and I was attracted by the way the face looked, physically. Seeing his face in a bookstall on the Seine--it just struck me how interested I was, how much he looked like a young boy, how amazing his face was. I then read his poems, and about his life, and that really fascinated me, but it was his face that I was… Read More

Brussels: Maison de la Francité, 1992     ¶ Thirty full-page portraits by various artists 1866-1986, with essays by François Carrassan, Olivier Rometti, and Jean Gillibert, also the dedication of Rimbaud's bust at Charleville 1927 (by André Breton et al) and an introduction 'D'Hyères à Bruxelles' by B. J. Ridopoulos; published in conjunction with the Rimbaud exhibition at Hyères 1991, Brussels 1992. Long out of print and VERY SCARCE on the market.   ||| At head of title: Évocation littéraire.  Cover imprint: L'Or des Îles.  Collation: In 8s (235 x 183 mm): 38 leaves, paginated [1-6] 7-73 [74-76]. Pages [1-2] and [76] are blank as issued.  Illustration: Thirty-nine full-page and two smaller illustrations (mostly portraits), after Rimbaud (3), Carjat (3), Delahaye (3), Fantin-Latour, Régamey, Verlaine (2), Isabelle Rimbaud (3),… Read More

Paris, 1951     ¶ The earliest postage-stamp -- and still the only French stamp -- devoted to Arthur Rimbaud; displaying a powerful portrait of the poet after Fantin-Latour (1872) with a storm-tossed boat and two great waterspouts in the background; designed by Paul Pierre Lemagny (1905-1977), engraved by G. A. Barlangue, and first issued at Charleville, 27 October 1951. Petitfils remarks that this stamp was "un grand succès", and that eighteen thousand were sold immediately.   ||| CORNER BLOCK OF FOUR engraved postage-stamps (each 26 x 40 mm) denominated 15 F, printed in green ink on wove paper unmarked, full margins top and right, dimensions 78 x 123 mm overall.  Condition: MINT, the gum somewhat browned as usual.  References: BN/Briet (1954) 1148; Petitfils (1984) 111 (pages 77-78); qqv. Yvert 910; Scott 668.  < "Scott 668" = _Scott standard postage stamp catalogue_ 2004, v2 (sv… Read More

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 poems as they appeared in Une saison en enfer 1873 and Les illuminations 1886; together with an appendix on recent publications 1922-25. FIRST PRINTING, ONE OF ONLY TWO HUNDRED COPIES, and very scarce in the market. Series: Les bibliographies nouvelles (Colléction du Bulletin du bibliophile), no. x. ||| Collation: In 8s (250 x 165 mm untrimmed): 40 leaves, paginated [1-5] 6-77 [78-80]. Halftone frontispiece (portrait after Carjat 1871/2), two plates (after Rimbaud, Régamey).  Binding: Printed blue wrappers.  References: BN/Briet 803; SMSU/St Aubyn… Read More

Paris: Mercure de France, 1999     Selected poems and letters; a common modern pocket edition. Borer's preface is entitled "Rimbaud à perte de vue", pages 7-[11].  (Series: Le petit Mercure.)   ||| Collation: 160 x 101 mm: 63 leaves, paginated [1-6] 7-120 [121-126]. Pages [1-2] and [123-126] are blank as issued.  Illustration: Three illustrations (facsimiles).  Binding: Color-pictorial wrappers after Ernest Pignon-Ernest (qv), priced 24 FF. Conditon: Very good. .

Mézières: Éditions de la Société des Écrivains Ardennais, 1933     ¶ ONLY EDITION of an early metaphysical interpretation: "Sous le nom de pays d'Orient, Rimbaud recherche le monde de son enfance qu'un incompréhensible déluge a balayé. Dans le brouillard d'enchantement qui obscurcit toutes choses depuis, il essaie de reconstruire sans imaginer l'univers disparu. L'Esprit est la clef de cette résurrection. Ce qu'il nomme Génie, c'est la Vie, ou mieux toutes les possibilités de vie. Il suffit de voir. Mais ce monde nouveau, purement matériel, ne tient pas compte d'une terrible réalité: la mort. C'est la faiblesse du système qui causera sa ruine, car Rimbaud n'admet rien hors la certitude. Une Saison en Enfer est l'écho du duel passionné de l'esprit chrétien et de l'esprit païen." (Petitfils 1949.)  Bibliography (61 items)… Read More

Djibouti (Djibouti), 1991     ¶ A STRIKING MINIATURE PORTRAIT based on Isabelle Rimbaud's drawing of her brother in East African costume 1891, with a caravan and a map (Aden and the horn of Africa) in the background; printed in Switzerland by Courvoisier and issued at Djibouti 23 December 1991.   ||| Postage-stamp 30 x 42 mm, denominated 150 F, lettered in French and Arabic, signed Courvoisier lower right, lithographed in colors, perforated as issued.  Condition: Mint, never hinged.  References: Yvert et Tellier (2002) no. 687.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  =  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous. .

Paris: Mercure de France, 1937     ¶ FIRST EDITION of this important collection; comprising drafts of Une saison en enfer 1873, variant texts for Les illuminations 1886, and eight letters to Demény 1871 and Delahaye 1872-75 -- including both the celebrated 'lettre du voyant' of 15 May 1871 ("Le poète se fait voyant par un long, immense et raisonné dérèglement de tous les sens", page 55) and the 'absomphe' letter of June 1872 (84-87). To these are added twenty-six letters between the poet's sister and brother-in-law 1896-97 and an essay "Rimbaud en Orient" by Isabelle Rimbaud, quoting liberally from her brother's letters: There is, says Petitfils, "quelque chose d'émouvant dans la découverte de Rimbaud, ou mieux d'UN Rimbaud, par ces deux êtres attirés l'un vers l'autre sans se connaître."  This edition is VERY SCARCE. There was no tirage de luxe.  … Read More

Djibouti (Djibouti), 1992     ¶ A STRIKING MINIATURE PORTRAIT based on Carjat's second photograph 1871/2, with a storm-tossed ship and a sea-serpent in the background; printed in Switzerland by Courvoisier and issued at Djibouti 5 February 1992.   ||| Postage-stamp 30 x 42 mm, denominated 90 F, lettered in French and Arabic, signed "Courvoisier" lower right, lithographed in colors, perforated as issued.  Condition: Mint, never hinged.  References: Yvert et Tellier (2002) no. 689.   ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  =  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous. .

Lyon: La Manufacture, 1985     ¶ ONLY EDITION of an interesting hommage to Jean-Paul Vaillant (1897-1970), "le sourcier de l'Ardenne", founder of the journal La grive 1928-73 and a leading figure in Rimbaud studies; including a biographical Portrait (pages [13]-64) by his son Philippe, a checklist of Levaillant's series Les cahiers ardennais 1928-84 (65-67), selected reprints from La grive ([72-135]), and a detailed index of the journal 1928-73 (137-83).  This is a PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED to the dialect-writer Jean-Pol Cordier, "le sourcier de nos langues", on Rimbaud's birthday 20 October 1985. Scarce.  (Series: Les classiques ardennais, [no. 5].)   ||| Cover title: Jean-Paul Vaillant et la revue La grive.  Collation: In 8s (220 x 159 mm): 94 leaves, paginated [1-10] 11-68 [69-136] 137-183 [184-188].  Illustration: Portraits, numerous facsimiles. … Read More

Charleville: Les Amis de Rimbaud, 1964     ¶ Only edition; including papers on "Le nouvel autographe des Effarés", "Une source d'inspiration des 'Chansons' de Rimbaud?" and "Le manuscrit des Mains de Jeanne-Marie".   ||| Collation: In 8 (230 x 157 mm): Eight leaves, paginated [1] 2-14 [15-16].  Binding: Printed wrappers.  Condition: Fine, unopened.  Reference: ISSN 1141-7218.  Provenance: (1) Pierre Petitfils (1908-2002), the editor; presented to l' (2) Auberge Verte (Rémi Duhart), of Paris; (3) Frédéric Porta, of Clichy; sold 2005.  ||| For further details please contact Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, as below.  Pour plus de détails, veuillez contacter Jay Dillon  Rare Books + Manuscripts, comme ci-dessous.  .

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 are enhanced here by reproductions of eight unpublished or obscurely-published drawings by Rimbaud's childhood friend Delahaye (3), by Germain Nouveau (3), and by Verlaine himself (2): Two of these drawings (Verlaine 1875, Delahaye 1880) include caricatures of Rimbaud.   ||| Collation: In 8s (183 x 120 mm): 42 leaves, paginated [1-6] 7-74 [75-84]. Eight full-page illustrations.  Binding: Quarter red morocco lettered in gilt, patterned boards, patterned endpapers, 2 + 2 flyleaves, top-edges sprinkled black, others trimmed & plain, preserving the original printed wrappers bound in.  References: Not in… Read More

Paris, 1951     ¶ The earliest postage-stamp -- and still the only French stamp -- devoted to Arthur Rimbaud; displaying a powerful portrait of the poet after Fantin-Latour (1872) with a storm-tossed boat and two great waterspouts in the background; designed by Paul Pierre Lemagny (1905-1977), engraved by G. A. Barlangue, and first issued at Charleville, 27 October 1951. Petitfils remarks that this stamp was "un grand succès", and that eighteen thousand were sold immediately.   ||| FULL SHEET OF FIFTY engraved postage-stamps (each 26 x 40 mm) denominated 15 F, printed in green ink on wove paper unmarked, plate no. 31681, cipher (pressmark) "IJ 3", full margins, dimensions 309 x 278 mm overall.  Condition: Near mint; partial fold-separations 5 cm center left and right.  References: BN/Briet (1954) 1148; Petitfils (1984) 111 (pages 77-78); qqv. Yvert 910; Scott 668. … Read More

Charleville: Les Amis de Rimbaud, 1963     ¶ Only edition; including papers by Petitfils on "La fin d'une légende (Rimbaud négrier)" and Briet on "Deux sources du Bateau ivre et autres poèmes dans le sillage du Capitaine Cook et de Lamartine"; together with an unsigned account -- probably by Petitfils -- of Arthur Rimbaud vu par des peintres contemporains 1962. The last includes a charming and little-known anecdote of Picasso's portrait of Rimbaud 1960, undoubtedly closer to the truth than Fowlie's account 1993. The lower wrapper illustrates a sculpture called Hommage à Rimbaud (Le bateau ivre), by François Stahly. Scarce.   ||| Collation: In 8 (230 x 156 mm): Eight leaves, paginated [1] 2-16.  Binding: Pictorial wrappers.  Condition: Fine, largely unopened.  Reference: ISSN 1141-7218.  Provenance: (1) Pierre Petitfils (1908-2002), the editor; presented to l'… Read More

Paris: NRF / Gallimard, 1945     ¶ Wartime diary of a young French girl aged 12-16, written for her father who was stranded in New York for the duration; INSCRIBED to a longtime friend of her father's, "Pour Béatrice Leval, qui maintenant n'est plus seulement l'amie de Papa, mais aussi la nôtre. Avec toute l'affection de Martine." (Beatrice Leval, of New York, was also a close friend of Jacques Schiffrin, who had founded the Éditions de la Pléiade in 1925 and who was then 'eliminated' from the cultural life of Paris in 1940; he emigated to New York, where he founded Pantheon Books in 1942 and published an English version of this Journal -- by Rimbaud's translator Louise Varèse -- in 1946.)   ||| Collation: In 8s (185 x 117 mm): 142 leaves, paginated [1-7] 8-281 [282-284].  Binding: Half green calf lettered in gilt, patterned boards and endpapers, top-edges gilt, others untrimmed, preserving the original… Read More