125 - Cranach Presse - Paul Valéry. Poems. Translated by Rainer Maria Rilke. Leipzig, Insel 1925. Original half-parchment binding with blue pasted paper covers; title on spine, initial on cover, and head edge gilded.

Cranach Presse - Paul Valéry. Poems. Translated by Rainer Maria Rilke. Leipzig, Insel 1925. Original half-parchment binding with blue pasted paper covers; title on spine, initial on cover, and head edge gilded. Announcement time: approx. 1:12 p.m. (schedule subject to change) First German edition of *Poésies*. - One of 400 numbered copies, printed on handmade paper and bound in half-parchment (total print run: 450). - Hand-printed under the direction and according to the typesetting instructions of Harry Graf Kessler and Georg Alexander Mathéy. - Eric Gill created the two florally decorated initials (front cover and beginning of the text) as well as the “Island Ship” title vignette and the colophon vignette at the end; the latter three were printed in red. - Both Kessler and Rilke himself are said to have valued the edition on the heavy, untrimmed, and slightly tinted handmade paper significantly more than the Japanese-style copies. - Enclosed: Lou Albert-Lazard. Portrait of Paul Valéry. Lithograph. Circa 1920. 42 × 30 cm. Signed by the artist and the subject. Copy 5/50. On thin Chinese paper, mounted on backing cardboard at the corners. Formerly in the Walter Kern collection, bearing his collector’s stamp in the lower right corner. Brinks 59. - Müller-Krumbach 38. - 100 Years of the Cranach Press, Weimar 2013, 40.- Sarkowski 1798. - Schauer II, 75.- Gill 326. - Fromm VI, 25924 27.4 × 19.2 cm. 60, [4] pages. - Front cover with scraping marks in the lower right corner. - The lithograph has tiny foxing spots and a larger vertical crease along the edge.