Poems by Rilke Rainer, First Edition (119 results)

Condition: Very Good. paperback Used - Very Good 1975 First Edition All purchases support Project HOME - ending homelessness in Philadelphia.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 6 X 9.25 inches. 224 pages. Paperback. Unmarked. Very Good. Diagonal crease to front top corner, else no defects. Contains many wonderful essays by Bly about Rilke's work. Bly's translations of "The Voices" were published separately by Ally Press and have been highly praised translations.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. No jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Burgundy 1/4 cloth, carnation paper covered boards, lettered in gold foil and black. Remainder mark on bottom text block edge, minor dampstain to lower front cover toward fore-edge, sticker ghost on lower back cover. Firm binding, clean interior beyond lengthy gift inscription on verso of front flyleaf. 149 pp. Dual-language edition with original German and facing-page English translation. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. some wear on cover, pages in good condition. French with English translations.

Paperback. Condition: Good. 1st. Ships in a BOX from Central Missouri! May not include working access code. Will not include dust jacket. Has used sticker(s) and some writing or highlighting. UPS shipping for most packages, (Priority Mail for AK/HI/APO/PO Boxes).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. NYC: North Point, 1996. 1st edition, 2nd printing, NF/NF. Book and dust jacket have wear to upper spine. The uncollected work exceeds 500 pieces, of which more than 1oo are printed in this volume. Side-by-side German-English text. Nice copy, 266 pp. BP.

Hardcover. Illus. by Ferris Cook (illustrator). 1st edition. 8vo, 149 pp., Selected & illustrated by Ferris Cook. Bilingual edition with facing German & English texts. Fine copy (issued without dust jacket).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover, as issued w/out dj. First Edition, First Printing. Selected and illustrated by Ferris Cook. Bilingual Edition: English and original German on facing pages. 149pp.

First edition Translated by Albert Ernest Flemming. Very close to fine and bright stiff wraps with excellent square spine and crisp text throughout. Illustrated.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1977. New Directions. 1st Edition. Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. 0811206505. Translated from the German by J. B. Leishman. 122 pages. hardcover. Jacket drawing and calligraphy by Ben Shahn. Jacket design by Gertrude Huston. keywords: Europe Germany Literature Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - POSSIBILITY OF BEING is a selection of poems by one of the most moving and original writers of this century, Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926). The title (taken from one of the SONNETS TO ORPHEUS, 'This Is the Creature') reflects the central concern of both Rilke's life and art: the achievement of 'being,' which this most spiritual yet least doctrinaire of modern German poets defined as 'the experiencing of the completest possible inner intensity.' The eighty-four poems included in this small volume will serve as a sound and inviting introduction to Rilke's strategies in the pursuit of 'being.' And just as the unicorn in the title poem has an eternal 'possibility of being' but only becomes visible in the minor held by a virgin, so can our own possibilities become manifest in the mirror held by the sensitive artist. The poems are chosen from THE BOOK OF HOURS (1899-1903), THE BOOK OF IMAGES (1902 AND 1906), NEW POEMS (1907 AND 1908), REQUIEM (1909), DUINO ELEGIES (1923), SONNETS TO ORPHEUS (1923), and the posthumous POEMS 1906-26. This selection was made by Professor Theodore Ziolkowski of Princeton University, who drew from the various New Directions volumes of Rilke's work translated by J. B. Leishman. inventory #6284 Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Maroon wraps. 8vo, 47 pages Text printed in German and English on adjacent pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Bilingual text: German and English. Selected and illustrated by Ferris Cook. Translated from the German. First edition thus. Fine in red cloth and rose paper covered boards. No dust jacket, as issued.

Paperback. Condition: Good+. 4th Printing. 51pp. Translated by Babette Deutsch. Light general wear. Signed by "Peter Blood Friends Book Store July 1979 (introduced to during Eliz. Watson's Poetry Workshop at FGC)" Friends General Conference. Photos on request Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine hardcover in a Near Fine dj. First Edition, First Printing. Selected and translated by Edward Snow. Bilingual Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Brand new: 1st Everyman Pocket Library Edition. The book is new, unread, and unused in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Text in German. 1/2 leather with decorated paper boards. 161pp. Slight wear, hinges partially split but tight. 2 gift inscriptions in Geman on front flyleaf. Photos on request. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original hardcover in jacket, first edition. Some light wear along edges and corners; age-toning to the pages. Overall, solid and bright. b21.

paperback. Condition: Very Good in Wrappers. No Jacket. First Edition. Rochester. 2018. July 2018. Camden House. Reprinted Paperback Edition. Very Good in Wrappers. 9781640140417. Edited by Len Krisak and George C. Schoolfield. Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture. Bilingual. 434 pages. paperback. keywords: Europe German Literature Poetry Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - Rainer Maria Rilke, the most famous (and important) German language poet of the twentieth century - a master to be ranked with Goethe and Heine - wrote the New Poems of 1907 and 1908 in transition from his late-nineteenth-century style. They mark his appearance as a lyrical, metaphysical poet of the modernist sensibility, often using traditional forms like the sonnet to explore the inner essence, the deep heart, of things - often, quite literally, things. Influenced by his time spent as Rodin's secretary, Rilke turned to quotidian life and sought to artistically redeem it in all its possibilities. His exquisite use of meter and rhyme marks him as a formalist and yet a contemporary of Eliot and the later Yeats, so this translation follows, as closely as English allows, the formal properties of the original poems, in a line-for-line version, while trying to capture the spare diction and direct idioms of modernism. inventory #43801.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Mass Market Paperback. Illustrated paper wrappers. Glued binding. 147 pages. 1st thus edition (1968), 11th printing. With English translations and notes by C. F. MacIntyre. CONDITION: VERY GOOD, binding square and tight, pages lightly age-tanned but unmarked ; wrappers with light rubbing, edgewear, age-tanning. CONTENT: Poems selected from Das Buch der Bilder and the two parts of Neue Gedichte show Rilke's deep concern with sculpture and painting. >Guaranteed secure packaging, free tracking, and no-hassle return policy.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near fine in near fine dust jacket in mylar cover.

First edition Selected and illustrated by Ferris Cook. Bilingual. As new rose colored boards with clean bright text. Beautifully illustrated. Handsome all around. Small line to bottom of block which bothers none of the text. New and bright all around gift quality.

Condition: New. 2020. 01st Edition. Paperback. . . . . .

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Part of The Miniature Classics Library series. Unabridged. Translated from the German by Howard Langley. First edition thus (miniature - measures roughly 2" x 2.5"). Fine in a brown leather binding.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 55 pages ; 21 cm. English and German facing pages. This copy inscribed by the two publishers to Minnesota poet Robert Bly on the half title page. Inscribed by the Publishers.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First paperback edition thus. Translated by Edward Snow. Small crease at the corner of one leaf, foxing on page edge, spine a bit sunned, else near fine in wrappers.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Book and jacket (in mylar) are in FINE unblemished condition. These are the preferred translations done by Edward Snow. ISBN indicates this is a 1st edition although the book makes no statement to that effect. Contains the original German on the facing page from Snow's translations.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First publication of these recently discovered works. A clean, tight, unmarked copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Near Fine in a Fine jacket. 1st Printing thus. Top Front corner of the half title page is corner clipped. 166pp 8vo.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Book softcover text in German and English First edition pp115. Condition Near Fine fading to spine and cover margins, edges light tan, otherwise immaculate.