Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG Fascinated by the oddly soothing

Fascinated by the oddly soothing voice

a few tiny stains to top of text block

small nick to upper edge of front

" a warrior hero of ancient legend

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG Fascinated by the oddly soothingFIRST 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