Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891)
Une saison en enfer
Brussels: Alliance Typographique (M. J. Poot et Compagnie), 1873
12mo (18,5 × 12,5 cm), publisher's wrappers printed in red and black, bound in. Sheets partly uncut.
Modern black morocco slipcase (Devauchelle).
First edition, printed at the author's expense.
One of about 500 copies printed.
The only work published by Arthur Rimbaud during his lifetime. The young poet having failed to pay his debt to the printer, he had only a dozen copies that he offered to his relatives.
The printer kept the stock which was discovered in 1901 by Léon Losseau, a Belgian bibliophile.
