Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG 3rd printing / 1979

3rd printing / 1979

Filled with expanded material—including all-new personal anecdotes and insights

Dust jacket has some very mild wear

a few tiny stains to top of text block

" a warrior hero of ancient legend

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG 3rd printing / 1979FIRST EDITION [1939] W. W. NORTON & COMPANY Rare US First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in tact with some small tears and general soiling discoloration. Book itself is gorgeous and reads Like New with just a hint of tanning to pages. Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With their symbolic