A Season in Hell -- Complete Suite of 8 Images All Initialed by Mapplethorpe
by ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE; [Arthur Rimbaud]
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine
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Palm Springs, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1986. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Full morocco folio, approximately 14.25 x 10.5 inches. One of only 40 portfolios containing the original photogravures produced by Mapplethorpe for the Limited Editions Club edition of Rimbaud's A Season in Hell. Each photogravure numbered, initialed and dated in pencil by Mapplethorpe, all tissue-guarded. Completely fine. Black cloth folding panels inside holding a letter press sheet containing the complete set of Mapplethorpe images: eight dust-grain photogravure plates, loose. The images are all as new. A stunning set, printed in two colors -- black wiped onto the etched area and yellow rolled onto the surface as a final step in preparing the plate for printing. Mapplethorpe explores both Rimbaud's life (the gun image referring to when he was shot by Verlaine) and his own difficult relationship with Catholicism. Very rare and very beautiful.
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- Bookseller
- Blue Sky Rare Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4176
- Title
- A Season in Hell -- Complete Suite of 8 Images All Initialed by Mapplethorpe
- Author
- ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE; [Arthur Rimbaud]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- The Limited Editions Club
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1986
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- Folio
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- Fine
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- Rolled
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- Plate
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
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