The Sonnets to Orpheus
Balthus. Rilke, Rainer Maria
New York. The Limited Editions Club. 1997
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From the edition limited to 300 copies on handmade Kozo Uwazen paper, signed and numbered by the illustrator on the justification.
Each of the 55 sonnets (26 for Part One and 29 for Part Two) is printed in Rilke's original German and in a translated version by Stephen Mitchell.
Each of the 55 sonnets (26 for Part One and 29 for Part Two) is printed in Rilke's original German and in a translated version by Stephen Mitchell.
Folio. Colour woodcut frontispiece by Balthus to each of the two parts. Original publisher's tan goatskin-backed coarse cloth boards, paper title label to upper board.
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