Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG " a warrior hero of

" a warrior hero of ancient legend

3rd printing / 1979

Fascinated by the oddly soothing voice

his beautiful mother

small nick to upper edge of front

Duino Elegies by Rainer Maria Rilke [FIRST EDITION / 1939] REDWHITEANDBLACK_TAG " a warrior hero ofFIRST EDITION [1939] W. W. NORTON & COMPANY Rare US First Edition. Hardcover with dust jacket. Dust jacket is in tact with some small tears and general soiling discoloration. Book itself is gorgeous and reads Like New with just a hint of tanning to pages. Written in a period of spiritual crisis between 1912 and 1922, the poems that compose the Duino Elegies are the ones most frequently identified with the Rilkean sensibility. With their symbolic