Wartime Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke 1914–1921
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. 279pp. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on cover and black label of spine, in original dustjacket with red and black lettering on spine. Green top edge. Translated by M. D. Herter Norton, "The letters Rilke wrote during the war and postwar years are of particular interest not only for whatever they may contain of the wisdom of the poet, the artist, and the humanitarian, but for the analysis of the intellectual and spiritual currents of the time. They give the account of Rilke's own state of mind and of his final approach to the threshold of his last great works." (Publisher). dustjacket with light wear along edges, small chips and closed tears at head of spine, this sunned and dj in general lightly age-toned. Light general wear of binding with sunned horizontal quarter inch strip at tail of spine. Previous owner's name and address inked to front free endpaper. Dustjacket and binding in overall good+, interior in very good condition. g+ to vg. Item #47457
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