9780671557089 - Sonnets to Orpheus (11 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. first thus. 8vo 183pp. translated and introduction by Stephen Mitchell. from front flap: "The Sonnets to Orpheus by Rainer Maria Rilke represents one of the most amazing outpourings of concentrated poetic achievement in world literature. Written in conjunction iwth the great DUino Elegies and dedicated to the memory of Vera Knoop, a beautiful young Dutch woman whose premature death deeply affected the poet, the cycle of Sonnets was completed in less than a month. [. . .] The result was both a masterpiece of German literature and a landmark of modern poetry." #02516. Book VG: shelf wear/soil to boards and spine, corners bumped, text unmarked, binding tight DJ VG-: corner and edge wear, age toning, NOT clipped.

Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 1985. First printing, with number line. A Near Fine book with minimal signs of use in a VG++ DJ that shows a little wear. Pages are bright, clean, unmarked; binding is firm & square. Very little shelf wear to edges. corners, & publisher's boards. DJ is whole with no tears, chips, or damp, but some light staining across back panel. Translated by Stephen Mitchell.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. Simon & Schuster, 1985. Hardcover in dust jacket; First Printing. 183 pages. Translated by Stephen Mitchell. Condition: Very Good. Pages clean and free of marks or writing. Half-cloth binding is tight. Dust jacket is lightly rubbed. Text block is toned along edges. Otherwise Fine.

Wraps. Condizione: Near Fine. First Edition, First Printing. Uncorrected proof of this translation by Stephen Mitchell with his introduction and notes. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. First printing. Translation by Stephen Miller of "Die Sonette an Orpheus" (Insel, 1923), with translator's introduction and notes. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9.75", is bound in quarter black cloth and light blue paper-covered boards, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket, with price of $13.95 on front flap, displays very light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 183 pages. One of the literary masterpieces of the century, this translation is now presented with facing-page German. To Rilke himself the "Sonnets to Orpheus" were "perhaps the most mysterious. in the way they came up and entrusted themselves to me, the most enigmatic dictation I have ever held through and achieved; the whole first part was written down in a single breathless act of obedience, between the 2nd and 5th of February, without one word being doubtful or having to be changed.".

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. 1st Edition. Unused copy. First printing.

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good. 1st Edition. American edition, first printing (full print run includes '1'), 1985. With original unclipped jacket ($13.95). Translated, with an introduction and notes by Stephen Mitchell. Dual language - English translation with the German to opposite page. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a few small marks, little patchy browning (including to spine), the odd crease/rub to edges, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine, little pushing/bumping to corners (which has resulted in tiny loss/tiny tears), the odd spot of foxing and minor creasing/rubbing to front/back inner flaps. Boards are near fine (having been well protected by the jacket) with minor pushing/bumping to corners and minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Pages bit tanned. Small mark inside front board (where an old sticker has been removed). Small mark to lower edge of a few pages. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges, tops and bottoms. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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