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Prose poems from the Illuminations of Arthur Rimbaud

Title: Prose poems from the Illuminations of Arthur Rimbaud / translated by Helen Rootham.
Author: Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.
Publication: Norfolk, Ct. : New Directions, 1943.

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	no. 1-10	Text	Use in library	D-13 9032 no. 1-10	Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Permit needed	Berg Coll Kerouac ZA3 R56 1943	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.		Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-2263	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320
Not available - Please for assistance.		Text	Restricted use	Berg Coll 22-2259	Schwarzman Building - Berg Collection Room 320

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Description

48 pages; 23 cm

Series Statement

Poets of the year ; 1943

Uniform Title

Illuminations. Selections. English & French

Alternative Title

Illuminations.
Illuminations
Rimbaud's Illuminations

Genre/Form

Typefaces (Type evidence) – Bembo.
Wrappers (Binding).
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance).
Dust jackets – Connecticut – Norfolk – 1943.
Private press books – Vermont – Woodstock – 1943.

Note

"This book was printed in August MCMXLIII at the Lane Press in Burlington, Vermont. The decorations by Alfonso Ossorio and the type is Bembo"-- colophon.

Indexed In (note)

Carruth, H. New Directions reader
Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin

Provenance (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2259 inscribed: "JL's Norfolk copy" in graphite , on front free endpaper.
Berg Coll. Kerouac ZA3 R56 1943 copy is Jack Kerouac's copy. Inscribed to him as "Jean Luis le Brie de Kerouac" from Allen Reynard [Ginsberg] on half-t.p.; with Kerouac's ms. note on p. 30. From the Jack Kerouac archive.

Binding (note)

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2259 bound in publishers' hardcover; with original dust jacket designed by Alfonso Ossorio.
Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 is bound in publisher's plain stiff wrappers; with original printed pictorial dust jacket.

Call Number

D-13 9032

LCCN

44003404

OCLC

510902

Author

Rimbaud, Arthur, 1854-1891.

Title

Prose poems from the Illuminations of Arthur Rimbaud / translated by Helen Rootham.

Illuminations

Rimbaud's Illuminations

Imprint

Norfolk, Ct. : New Directions, 1943.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Poets of the year ; 1943

Provenance

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2259 inscribed: "JL's Norfolk copy" in graphite , on front free endpaper. NN

Indexed In:

Carruth, H. New Directions reader, page 238

Harrison, J.A. Published for James Laughlin, page 10

Binding

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2259 bound in publishers' hardcover; with original dust jacket designed by Alfonso Ossorio. NN

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 is bound in publisher's plain stiff wrappers; with original printed pictorial dust jacket. NN

Local Note

Copies in Berg Coll 22-2259 and 22-2263 acquired from Leila and Daniel Javitch, 2021.

Copy in Berg Coll 22-2263 is one of twelve volumes in a slipcase.

Provenance

Berg Coll. Kerouac ZA3 R56 1943 copy is Jack Kerouac's copy. Inscribed to him as "Jean Luis le Brie de Kerouac" from Allen Reynard [Ginsberg] on half-t.p.; with Kerouac's ms. note on p. 30. From the Jack Kerouac archive.

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Added Author

Rootham, Helen. translator.

Ossorio, Alfonso, 1916-1990. illustrator.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, publisher.

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997. Inscriber NN-BGC

Kerouac, Jack, 1922-1969. Former owner NN-BGC

Javitch, Leila Laughlin, donor.

Javitch, Daniel, donor.

Laughlin, James, 1914-1997, former owner.

James Laughlin's library of New Directions imprints.

New Directions Publishing, publisher.

Lane Press. printer.

Research Call Number

D-13 9032

*KSD (Rimbaud, A. Prose poems from the illuminations)

Berg Coll 22-2259

Berg Coll 22-2263

Berg Coll Kerouac ZA3 R56 1943

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