Rimbaud, Arthur [and Paul Verlaine]
Les Stupra. Sonnets.
- Paris, Imprimerie particulière [Albert Messein], 1871 [1923] First, clandestine edition published with a counterfeit date on the initiative of André Breton and Paul Eluard. Unpaginated [16pp], this no 98 of 150 copies from an edition limited to 175 copies only. Original wrappers 22.5x16.5cms. Three homoerotic sonnets, the first two published for the first time, the infamous third known as the 'Sonnet du trou du cul' circulated round the Latin Quarter and was finally published in1903 in Verlaine's posthumous Hombres. Text in French.
[Bookseller: Thomas Heneage Art Books]
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