Lettres À Une Amie Vénitienne Letters to a Venetian Friend

by Rainer Maria Rilke

$500 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller

First edition

Verona: Officina Bodoni, 1941. Limited first edition. Hardcover. 73/350. Quarto. 83 1 pp. Original vellum covered boards with gilt lettering on spine, protected by modern mylar, in light plum paper-covered slipcase. Top edge gilt. Title page with etching by Mario Vellani-Marchi. Top and bottom edges uncut.Thirty-four unpublished Rilke letters to Mimi Romanelli, written from 1907–1912, thirty-two in

• Binding: Leather

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