Rilke from Berthoff Books

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1977. Soft cover. Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. 205 pages plus 11 pages front matter and translator's Preface. Trade paperback, crease to spine, binding cracked at p. 44-45, light shelf wear, dust soil to top edge, foxing to fore-edge and end papers. Notes observed on two pages (one in preface, one… Read more about this item

North Point Press (Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 1994. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 258 pages, including four pages of Notes at the end, plus 16 pages front matter/introduction. Translated by Edward Snow. German originals and English translations on facing pages. Fourth printing (1996) of Revised Edition; translation of Das Buch der Bilder first published 1991. Trade… Read more about this item

New Directions, 1978. Soft cover. Very Good. 154 pages plus six of front matter/foreword. Translated by G. Craig Houston, Foreword by Denise Levertov. Collection first published 1960 as Vol. I of Selected Works. Fifteen essays and one lecture, first published between 1903 and 1938. Small trade paperback (5-1/4" x 8"), light soil to wraps, minimal shelf wear, foxing/dust… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1997. Soft cover. Good. 306 pages. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Annotated by the translators. A dozen pages of b&w photos. 8vo, plain paper wrappers, soiled and worn, reading crease. Note about review due date written on front cover. From the library of Prof. Warner Berthoff, his underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil throughout and notes on rear… Read more about this item

Univeristy of California Press, 1966. Soft cover. Good. 322 pages, with index of persons, lists of Rilke's works in German and French and his translations, and of German titles of Rilke's works, author's notes. First paperback edition of the English translation published 1964. The book, first published 1936, recounts the last seven years of Rilke's life (1919-1926). Included… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1940. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 279 pages, with translator's introduction, ~40 pages of notes, list of correspondents. 8vo, gray cloth soiled and heavily sunned, with black lettering faded on front board and entirely gone from spine which has losses from previously applied sticky tape, tape remnants in 1" strip of back board… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1938. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 245 pages, with Foreword and Notes by the translator. German originals and English translations are printed facing. 8vo, tan boards with light brown cloth quarter, faded black lettering on spine, fore-edge rough-cut, corn-yellow end papers, heavy wear to corners/crown/heel, top half of backstrip reglued where it was… Read more about this item

W.W. Norton & Company, 1963. Soft cover. Very Good. BILINGUAL EDITION GERMAN-ENGLISH. 93 pages. First Norton Library edition of translation first published 1932, revised 1959, of vignettes written 1899 and first published in German 1904. Includes one-page biographical note and three-page translator's Foreword. Printed with German original and English translation facing. Small trade paperback (5" x 7-3/4") with… Read more about this item