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Published by Lutterworth Press, Cambridge, 1984
ISBN 10: 0718826205ISBN 13: 9780718826208
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 2nd Edition. 419pp + ix prelims. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt lettering on spine. No inscriptions. Toning to pages edges all round. Unclipped dust jacket. Translated from the German in collaboration with the author by Russell M. Stockman. Verse translated by Richard Exner. Originally published in Germany in 1981. 1st UK edition.
Published by Fromm International, 1984
ISBN 10: 0880640154ISBN 13: 9780880640152
Seller: Remarks Used Books, Pittsfield, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First U.S. Edition. Bright, clean & tight copy, unread in FINE condition. "The life of Rainer Maria Rilke---the poet whose Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus are among the most celebrated lyric works of our century, and whose novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, is a much beloved masterpiece---is here brilliantly told. We see his early life in Prague (raised as a girl until the age of seven), his strikingly inauspicious literary debut, the years of wandering through which he became, in effect, a citizen of the world---connected to Germany 'only by language,' his intellectual home in Paris; his trajectory through a glittering constellation of writers and artists: Tolstoy, Thomas Mann, Diaghilev, Paul Klee, Hermann Hesse, Paul Valery, Balthus; the two strong attachments that most deeply influenced him---his affair with the disarmingly impulsive Lou Andreas-Salome and his work with the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and his extraordinary evolution as a poet---fitfully bringing forth the work that has secured him a lasting place in world letters." [publisher's copy] "The first comprehensive biography of Rilke in decades. Brilliantly written, it will appeal to readers of every age."---Die Zeit "A genial biography. The author is deeply familiar with the historical and cultural background. The fine detail of the biographical reconstruction, the energetic way in which past scenes are evoked, hosts of ladies patiently exhumed, subtle psychological continuities pursued, is remarkable and outstanding."---London Review of Books. Pristine copy w/sharp corners & crisp edges, a square & tight binding w/no creases in spine & no age toning on pages. Attractive & presentable & quite collectible.
Published by Lutterworth Press, 1984
ISBN 10: 0718826205ISBN 13: 9780718826208
Seller: Lake Country Books and More, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. Clean, solid hardcover copy with unmarked text. Jacket has a water stain along upper edge that does not affect the book. Jacket has mild surface and edge wear. Binding is tight and square. We are unable to ship oversize books and multi-volume sets internationally.