I Promise to Be Good – Arthur Rimbaud
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For sale: a rare and exceptional revised hardcover edition, second printing of I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud by Arthur Rimbaud in a new archival wrap. First Edition unstated, 2003 Modern Library. First Printing with complete number line 2 4 6 8 9 7 5 3 1.  Translated and Edited with an introduction by Wyatt Mason.

The book is in Near Fine condition with clean, bright boards, strong title gilt on the tilted spine, clean page blocks, tight binding, mild spine tilt, strong spine ends, mild edge wear, and strong corners. The interior of the book is in Near Fine condition with no marks, inscriptions, or other signs of ownership. The end papers and the interior pages are clean and lightly toned .

The dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with mild surface and edge wear, and the price on the front flap. Looks great in a new archival wrap.

I Promise to Be Good: The Letters of Arthur Rimbaud is the second and final volume in Mason’s authoritative presentation of Rimbaud’s writings. Called by Edward Hirsch “the definitive translation for our time,” Mason’s first volume, Rimbaud Complete (Modern Library, 2002), brought Rimbaud’s poetry and prose into vivid focus. In I Promise to Be Good, Mason adds the missing epistolary pieces to our picture of Rimbaud.