RILKE, Rainer Maria.

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Les Roses. First edition of "perhaps the masterpiece of Rilke's poetry in French" (Bucher, p. 257). This copy is number 165 of 300 copies on Van Gelder paper. The book was published the year after Rilke's death, with an elegiac introduction by Paul Valéry. Loosely inserted is a four-page leaflet from the publisher advertising this work.

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