Rilke, Rainer Maria (translated by Carl Niemeyer). Primal Sound & Other Prose Pieces. Cummington Press, 1943.

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Condition: Very Good

Description: hardback, slim octavo, blue cloth lettered black, protected in the original yellowed and now chipped glassene wrapper, minor faint and age-toned foxing at the head of the boards where the wrapper is chipped, loss to the wrapper at the head and foot of the spine. The volume is tightly bound, the text clean and unmarked, woodcuts by Paul Wieghardt, ix + 38pp. Published in an edition limited to one hundred and seventy-five copies of which this example is numbered 160.

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Rilke, Rainer Maria. Primal sound & other prose pieces. Translated with an introduction by Carl Niemeyer, illustrated with woodcuts by Paul Wieghardt. Cummington Press, [Cummington], 1943.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Description: First edition in English, limited to 175 copies (this, no. 127), 8vo, pp. ix, [1], 38; 5 full-page woodcuts; original blue cloth stamped in black on upper cover and spine; light wear, but near fine. Ownership signature of Edith T. Bronson 1943 on front free endpaper. From the library of Kim Merker. Richmond 10.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.