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1230 - Rilke, R.M.

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€80

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Estimation

€80 - 120

Sale fees

27%

Rilke, R.M. The Sonnets to Orpheus. Written as a memorial for Wera Ouckama Knoop. Leipzig: Insel, 1923. 63 pp. Hardcover with gold lettering on the head. First edition. - Generally somewhat stiff; cover slightly rubbed; spine reinforced with a strip of paste-backed paper. - Sarkowski 1357. - ╔Includes: I.╗ Rilke, Letters—a collection of 6 works in 7 volumes: 1. Letters to His Publisher. 2 volumes. New expanded edition. Original cloth. Wiesbaden 1949. - 2. The Letters to Countess Sizzo. Original paperback. Wiesbaden, Insel, 1950. - 3. The Letters to Mrs. Gudi Nölke. From Rilke’s Swiss Years. Original cloth binding. Wiesbaden, Insel, 1953. - 4. Katharina Kippenberg. Correspondence. Original cloth binding. Wiesbaden, Insel, 1954. - 5. Correspondence with Benvenuta. Original cloth binding. Esslingen, Bechtle, (1954). - 6. Inga Junghanns. Correspondence. Original cloth binding. Wiesbaden, Insel, 1959. - Also: Selected Works. 2 volumes. Original half-cloth. Wiesbaden, Insel, 1950. - ╔II.╗ Rilke, Letters. Edited by the Rilke Archive in Weimar, in collaboration with Ruth Sieber-Rilke, edited by Karl Altheim. 2 volumes. VII, 566 pages, 1 leaf; 613 pages, 1 leaf. Original cloth. Wiesbaden, Insel, 1950. - First volume: 1897–1914; second volume: 1914–1926. - Spine and top of both covers faded; Vol. 1 slightly warped at the top. A fine copy.

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Auction details

Auction 146 - Day 1
Wednesday, December 9
10:00 AM
Steubenstrasse, 36
75172 Pforzheim, Germany

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