Die Sonette an Orpheus. Geschrieben als ein Grab-Mal für Wera Ouckama Knoop The Sonnets to Orpheus. Written as a Monument for Wera Ouckama Knoop
$450 · Offered by Eric Chaim Kline Bookseller · No longer available
First edition
Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923. First edition. Hardcover. Large Octavo. 63 1 pp. Professionally rebacked tan quarter-cloth over marbled boards with gilt lettering and decorative ruling on debossed green leather label of cover and green leather label on spine. Inspired by the death of Wera Ouckama Knoop, playmate of Rilke's daughter, the Sonnets to Orpheus were written in February of 1922 at the Chateau de Muzot
- Binding: Hardcover
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