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558 - Vieillard, Roger. – A Tribute to Arthur Rimbaud.
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Estimate €1,000 - €1,500
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Description
Vieillard, Roger. – A Tribute to Arthur Rimbaud. [Paris: the Author, c. 1944]. Folio, loose-leaf, in a salmon-coloured paper cover illustrated with an engraving on each cover, cardboard slipcase with the front cover hand-stamped and incised with the initials ‘AR’, slipcase decorated with a strip of coloured paper (binding signed, indecipherable) – [1 title leaf, 12 leaves of poems, 1 blank leaf, 1 colophon leaf, 12 leaves of engravings]. Illustrated with 12 full-page engravings initialled in pencil and 4 vignettes (1 on the cover, 1 repeated on the title page, 1 on the colophon, with the full signature in pencil, 1 on the back cover). A print run of just 7 copies: 4 proof copies marked I to IV and three artist’s copies marked A, B, C. This copy, marked “C”, on antique Japanese paper, was presented with the inscription “To Msika, for whom this copy has fallen into good hands. Kind regards, Roger Vieillard”. The BNF holds, by donation, the copy belonging to Anita de Caro, the wife of R. Vieillard. An exceptional copy published prior to the 1945 edition published by Seuil.
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Auction time 10/01/2026 at 10:00 AM
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