{"product_id":"robert-mapplethorpe-arthur-rimbaud-a-season-in-hell-1986","title":"Robert Mapplethorpe \/ Arthur Rimbaud — A Season in Hell (1986)","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Limited Editions Club, New York, 1986\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributors:\u003c\/strong\u003e Translated by Paul Schmidt; photogravures by Robert Mapplethorpe\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eEdition:\u003c\/strong\u003e First edition thus\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLimitation:\u003c\/strong\u003e Copy no. 10 of 1,000, signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBinding:\u003c\/strong\u003e Full red morocco, lettered in black; black cloth slipcase; prospectus laid in\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 87 pp.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 28.7 x 19.2 cm (11¼ x 7⅝ in)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/strong\u003e French \/ English (parallel text)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSignature:\u003c\/strong\u003e Signed by Mapplethorpe and translator Paul Schmidt in the colophon.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eCondition:\u003c\/strong\u003e Fine; previous owner's blind stamp on front free endpaper.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003eRimbaud wrote Une saison en enfer in 1873, at eighteen, the summer Verlaine shot him in the wrist in Brussels. It is a prose poem of damnation and self-invention, and it became a founding text for twentieth-century poets and musicians, Patti Smith, Mapplethorpe's closest friend, among them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the Limited Editions Club, Mapplethorpe answered Paul Schmidt's translation with photogravures made by Jon Goodman, among them a rose wreathed in smoke, a revolver and a figure study. It is one of the few times he worked in fine printing, and the velvety blacks of gravure suit his taste for the nineteenth century. The text is printed letterpress and the book bound in red morocco.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCopy number 10 of 1,000, signed by Mapplethorpe and Schmidt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Robert Mapplethorpe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67894710894909,"sku":"DI-006","price":1800.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1024\/2857\/4013\/files\/unnamed_0d6c3c88-959a-4ef9-85f7-75272d3cae6e.jpg?v=1793689129","url":"https:\/\/docksideinterview.com\/products\/robert-mapplethorpe-arthur-rimbaud-a-season-in-hell-1986","provider":"Dockside Interview","version":"1.0","type":"link"}