Duino Elegies. Rainer Maria Rilke.

Duino Elegies

W.W. Norton & Company, 1939.

8vo, beige buckram cloth, titles stamped in maroon and blue, bevelled edges, 130pp. Price-clipped dust jacket (with 3.00 stamped price to lower corner of front flap) faintly toned with small chips and creases to top edge of panels. Contents clean, binding firm and sharp. The First American Edition of the English translation of the ten Duino Elegies, by J.B. Leishman and Stephen Spender, printed with their introduction and commentary. Picasso Les Saltimbanques frontispiece painting opposite titles. A handsome copy in mylar. 
. Near Fine.

Price: $150.00

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