£50
Rilke (Rainer Maria), eight Hogarth Press imprints, comprising Leisham (J.B., translator), Poems 1906 to 1926, first edition thus, 1957, interleaved with loosely-inserted MS notes, Peck (A.L., translator), The Book of Hours, first edition thus, 1961, ffep with a four-stanza autograph poem, Wydenbruck (Nora, editor), The Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke & Princess Marie von Thurn und Taxis, first English edition, 1958, two interleaved MS notes, Leisham (J.B., translator), Requiem, second edition thus, revised and enlarged, 1949, idem, Duino Elegies, third edition, second impression, 1952, some interleaved notes, idem, From The Remains of Count C.W., first edition thus, 1952, idem, Sonnets To Orpheus, second edition, second impression, 1957, [&] Norden (Hans, translator), Letters To Benvenuta, first edition thus, 1953, all with their original publisher's dustjackets over cloth as issued, varying degrees of wear to the dustjackets, but OK-good, 8vo, with another Rilke title, Sneil (Reginald, translator), Letters To A Young Poet, first edition thus, fifth impression, London: Sidgwick and Jackson, October, 1955, original publisher's dustjacket over red cloth, 8vo, (9)
Provenance: from the library of Roger Poole (1939-2003), literary theorist and man of letters, authority on Virginia Woolf and Kierkegaard.
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