Seller: Wonder Book, Frederick, MD, U.S.A.
Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. Signed by translator A. Poulin, Jr. on title page. Gifter's inscription on front endpage. French and English edition. Seller Inventory # R13OS-00067
Seller: Herland Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in lightly toned near fine rubbed dust jacket with a smudge spot front and rear panel, in mylar cover. Seller Inventory # 20276
Seller: The Book Collector, Inc. ABAA, ILAB, Fort Worth, TX, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 101 pages. Small octavo (7 1/4" x 4 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with lettering to spine and rose window design to cover in original jacket. Translated from the French by A Poulin, Jr. Foreword by W D Snodgrass. First edition into English. This volume presents for the first time in English translation the French poems of Rainer Maria Rilke. Most of the poems were composed after Rilke's great outpouring of 1922, which gave us the Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus, surely among the greatest achievements of modern poetry. We have here the surprising phenomenon of a treat German poet turning at the end of his life to the writing of poems in another language, a 'foreign' language (though Rilke had lived in France and translated the work of Baudelaire, Valery, Mallarme and others). When the poems first appeared in two Paris literary journals, he was attacked in the German press. In Rilke's response to that criticism, he said that he might have called the poems Side-hours "in which, however, a main feeling finds expression." W D Snodgrass points out in his Foreword to this book that in "translating the Sonnets and the Elegies, Poulin was forced to sojourn in Rilke's native tongue, one alien to him. Translating the The Roses and the Windows where Rilke leaves his native language, Poulin is restored to his. A Poulin, Jr follows his magnificent translations of the Elegies and Sonnets with these translations from Rilke's French, these fragile, joyous explorations of the spirit that give us a new and fuller appreciation of Rilke and his work. This translation is accompanied by the French original on facing pages. René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke (4 December 1875 ¿ 29 December 1926) ¿ better known as Rainer Maria Rilke ¿ was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist, "widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets", writing in both verse and highly lyrical prose. Several critics have described Rilke's work as inherently "mystical". His writings include one novel, several collections of poetry, and several volumes of correspondence in which he invokes haunting images that focus on the difficulty of communion with the ineffable in an age of disbelief, solitude, and profound anxiety. These deeply existential themes tend to position him as a transitional figure between the traditional and the modernist writers. Condition: Lacks front free end paper. Jacket light lightly soiled else a fine copy in a near fine jacket. Seller Inventory # 000368
Seller: SatelliteBooks, Burlington, VT, U.S.A.
hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition Stated. Hardcover. Very Good / Very Good dust jacket. Gift inscription on flyleaf: "Tad - As our friendship." No other markings or writings inside. Clear Text. Minor shelf-wear. Sunning on spine. Paper loss on top and bottom edges of jacket at spine. For any additional information or pictures, please inquire. Seller Inventory # 240118010
Seller: GoldBooks, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: new. New Copy. Customer Service Guaranteed. Seller Inventory # 87P31_51_0915308215
Seller: thebookforest.com, San Rafael, CA, U.S.A.
Condition: New. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010. Seller Inventory # BAY_21_SH_010369
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition in English. Translated by A. Poulin, Jr. Foreword by W.D. Snodgrass. Text in French and English on facing pages. Boards slightly faded with a touch of edgewear, near fine in a near fine dust jacket with a lightly tanned spine. Poet David Ignatow's copy with his owner label. Also Signed and Inscribed by the translator to Ignatow. Seller Inventory # 523149
Seller: Idler Fine Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. William F. Claire (Association); Phyllis Hopeck and Drew Elicker (illustrator). 1st Edition. First printing of the stated first edition (English and French edition). Signed association copy, inscribed by A. Poulin and W.D. Snodgrass directly on the half-title page: "This copy of. / [The Roses / & / The Windows]. / for William Claire, / with great affection and / gratitude, / Al Paulin / 1/3/80- / Washington, D.C. / for Bill Claire / with thanks and good wishes, / W.D. Snodgrass." Book in fine condition; dust jacket with light toning/rubbing to spine, else fine. In excellent condition. William F. Claire is an essayist and poet: "Claire founded the literary magazine Voyages in 1967. Since its inception, Voyages has won a number of awards, including a National Endowment for the Arts award. Claire's work has been published in The American Scholar, Antioch Review, New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, The Poetry Pilot of the Academy of American Poets, as well as numerous other major publications. His poems have also been recorded for the Library of Congress archives. He has earned a Rockefeller Foundation Grant for residency in Belagio, Italy and Fellowships at Yaddo and MacDowell." [MacDowell Fellowships]. Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 022731
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 101 pages. First edition, first printing. Translated A. Poulin, Jr. Foreword by W.D. Snodgrass. One (41) of 48 special copies signed by Poulin & Snodgrass. First appearance in English of Rilke's French poems. The French text on pages facing the English ones. Fine book in a fine dust jacket a beautiful copy! Signed by Author(s). Seller Inventory # 40338273878