PARIS 1938 · SIGNED ASSOCIATION COPY · FRENCH LITERATURE · MUSIC HISTORY
Rimbaud in Paris, 1938 — Miguel Fontecha’s Presentation Copy to Pianist Gerna Gilmour
Arthur Rimbaud · Paris: Mercure de France, 1929 · Inscribed by Miguel Fontecha to Gerna Gilmour
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Paris, 11 November 1938: the Spanish tenor and vocal teacher Miguel Fontecha presented this copy of Rimbaud to the Canadian concert pianist Gerna Gilmour. A personal inscription linking two international musicians in pre-war Paris; Fontecha later taught celebrated operetta tenor Luis Mariano. This is a signed association copy, not a Rimbaud autograph or first edition.
- Author
- Arthur Rimbaud (1854–1891)
- Title
- Œuvres de Arthur Rimbaud — Vers et Proses; Poèmes retrouvés
- Publication
- Paris: Mercure de France, 1929
- Editor / preface
- Paterne Berrichon; preface by Paul Claudel
- Edition
- Later collected edition; not a first edition
- Inscriber
- Miguel Fontecha, Spanish tenor and singing teacher
- Recipient
- Gerna Gilmour, Canadian concert pianist
- Inscription
- Personal presentation signed Miguel Fontecha; Paris, 11 November 1938
- Binding
- Period brown half-leather, marbled paper-covered boards
- Pagination
- Reference copies approximately 398 pages; exact extent to be collated
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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