Item #147288 The Sonnets to Orpheus. Rainer Maria Rilke, Kurt Roesch.
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus
The Sonnets to Orpheus

The Sonnets to Orpheus

New York: Wittenborn & Co., 1944. Hardcover. Light blue boards, with blue paper dust jacket, navy blue cloth-bound slipcase, unpaginated, 9 BW engravings. OVERSIZE AA3. G+ (Slipcase has some scuffs and slight edgewear; dj has aged inconsistently; flyleaves have slight foxing; engravings have bled slightly onto adjacent pages (offsetting); SIGNED & NUMBERED BY ARTIST on final page.). Item #147288

Text is in German and English. A special edition of one of Bohemian-Austrian poet Rilke's master works, the 55-sonnet cycle known as "Die Sonatta an Orpheus," or "The Sonnets to Orpheus." Each verse appears in German and is paired on a single page with its 1942 English translation by M. D. Herter Norton. What adds value here are the nine accompanying engravings rendered by German-American artist Kurt Roesch (1905-1984). Each one is signed by Roesch, who also signed and numbered the final page. #2 of only 35 copies, and therefore, scarce.

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