Prose Poems from Les Illuminations of Arthur Rimbaud

1932, the first printing of Helen Rootham's translation, with an introduction by Edith Sitwell

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First edition. Hardback in dustwrapper. 22.5 × 14.5cm, 109pp.

Les Illuminations is Rimbaud's incomplete suite of prose poems, first published in a literary review in May—June 1886, and are a work of acute imagination, defying classification. Helen Rootham's translation was highly regarded, and Edith Sitwell, a close personal friend of Rootham's and whose own poetry was influenced by Rimbaud, provides an introductory essay for English readers.

Condition

The book itself is in good plus condition, with some light spotting to the endpapers and page edges but otherwise in strong, clean, readable condition. The dustwrapper is quite heavily chipped to the edges and joints with slight loss to the head of the spine but is now within a protective sleeve.