signed first edition Hardcover
(1939) · Norfolk, CT
by (SCHWARTZ, Delmore) RIMBAUD, Arthur
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in a soiled, Good dustwrapper with wear and tears along the spine but quite presentable under mylar. Delmore Schwartz's translation is the first published in America of Rimbaud's great prose poem UNE SAISON EN ENFER, one of 780 copies. This is an Association Copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Schwartz on the front endpaper: "To George Marion/Delmore,/January 1940, in this our season." George Marion O'Donnell was a poet and editor associated with the Agrarian School and the Southern New Critics who died at the age of 47. He has SIGNED the book on the front pastedown beneath the dustwrapper inside flap. (Inventory #: 020866)