Arthur Rimbaud, A Season in Hell.

Two copies of the same title: A Season of Hell by Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891), the precocious boy-poet of French symbolism. From New Directions, Alvin Lustig is again the designer of a contrasting black and white on a hellish-red cover while the artist Keith Vaughan (1912-1977), from the stable of John Lehmann, delivers a more somber design. Each has free flowing lettering. Given that Vaughan had a marked preoccupation with the role of man within his landscape, and once said 'I have spent my whole life looking for myself', his cover - with a lone figure walking up the hill - is particularly apt.