{"product_id":"rimbaud-arthur-a-season-in-hell","title":"RIMBAUD, Arthur A Season in Hell.","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRIMBAUD, Arthur\u003c\/strong\u003e A Season in Hell. \u003ci\u003eWith Robert Mapplethorpe. Limited Editions Club,\u003c\/i\u003e 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e4to. Original red morocco, lettered in black to front cover and spine, in plushlined black cloth slipcase; pp. [6], xii, 87, [7], printed in parallel French and English on facing pages, with 8 photogravure plates by Mapplethorpe, loosely inserted tissue guards; minimal scratching to slipcase; a near-fine copy; signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt in pencil to colophon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFirst edition, limited to 1,000 copies, with photogravure illustrations by Robert Mapplethorpe, signed by the photographer and the translator, this copy unnumbered.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eArthur Rimbaud’s incendiary, hallucinogenic and groundbreaking prose poem is here presented in the original French alongside Paul Schmidt’s English translation. In his introduction, Schmidt describes \u003ci\u003eA Season in Hell\u003c\/i\u003e as ‘a work of adolescent passion – not the passion of exuberance, but passion as suffering’, and retraces the desperate circumstances which produced this frenzy of artistic expression. It was originally self-published by Rimbaud in 1873 as \u003ci\u003eUne Saison en Enfer\u003c\/i\u003e. Published only three years before the photographer’s death, this edition is illustrated by Robert Mapplethorpe’s spectacular photogravures. Bringing together a selection of the photographer’s self-portraiture, still lifes, and experimental double exposures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSKU: \u003c\/strong\u003e2122926\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sotherans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55604960919929,"sku":"2122926","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0045\/2178\/7426\/files\/2122926_6d12181d-bedc-4878-98c5-541245007a6e.jpg?v=1781610382","url":"https:\/\/sotherans.co.uk\/products\/rimbaud-arthur-a-season-in-hell","provider":"Sotherans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}