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Duineser Elegien. Elegies From The Castle Of Duino. Translated from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by V. Sackville-West and Edward Sackville West.

(London: Hogarth Press, 1931). First edition. One of 230 numbered copies printed at the Cranach Press on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper with the watermark of the Cranach Press and signed by the translators. Count Harry Kessler designed the format for the book; Eric Gill designed and personally cut the wood-engravings for the initials; the Italic type was designed by Edward Johnson and cut by E. Prince and G. T. Friend; the paper was hand-made by Count Kessler and Gaspard and Aristide Maillol; and the book was printed under the supervision of Count Kessler and Max Goertz. Woolmer 268. Cross and Ravenscroft-Hulme A25 – noting that, in fact, 240 copies were printed, of which 40 were not for sale. Dust jacket lightly sunned along spine, slipcase also lightly tanned, some very slight foxing to the text, otherwise a fine copy in the rare original dust jacket. The most beautiful book to bear the Hogarth Press’s imprint, and one of the scarcest. 8vo, initials designed by Eric Gill, original vellum-backed boards, t.e.g., plain unprinted dust jacket, publisher’s slipcase.

Price: $10,000.00

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