![]() ![]() Rilke spent the winter of 1911-12 at Duino Castle on the Adriatic Sea as a guest of his friend Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis-Hohenlohe, who later related Rilke’s account of the genesis of the Elegies. ![]() ![]() It retains its original plain paper dust jacket and cardboard, morocco-edged slipcase, both often absent. This beautiful copy of Rilke’s magnificent Elegies, the work he regarded as his finest and fullest expression, is one of only 300 copies of the first edition, and one of only about 100 of which were bound in full green morocco-gilt. “Rilke may well be the apotheosis of the German language” (Gross, 186). Tall quarto, publisher’s full green crushed morocco gilt expertly rebacked, raised bands, top edge gilt, original dust jacket and cardboard slipcase.ĭeluxe limited large-paper first edition of one of the greatest volumes of poetry of the 20th century, number 15 of only 300 copies, this copy one of the first 100 copies specially bound in full green gilt-decorated morocco at the Wiener Werkstadt. ![]() “WHO, IF I CRIED OUT, WOULD HEAR ME AMONG THE ANGELS’ HIERARCHIES?”: FIRST EDITION OF RILKE’S MAGNIFICENT DUINO ELEGIES, ONE OF ONLY 100 COPIES SPECIALLY BOUND IN PUBLISHER’S FULL MOROCCO-GILT, IN EXCEPTIONALLY RARE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET AND SLIPCASE ![]()
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