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$12.50Leipzig: Insel, 1987. First printing of this edition. 90 pp. Very near fine in patterned paper-covered boards with printed spine and cover label. Text in German. -
$45.00(np): Taucross Farm Press (1988). First edition. [28 pp]. Very good plus in printed paper-covered boards with cloth spine, that is foxed. Translated from the original German by Joan M. Erikson. Illustrated with woodcuts by Erik H. Erikson. One of 225 numbered copies. SIGNED by Joan Erikson on the colophon page.
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$75.00[San Francisco]: Square Zero Editions, 1980. First edition. 16 12/2 x 13 1/2 inch broadside, printed letterpress in two colors. Fine. Rilke’s poem here in Robert Bly’s English translation. One of 100 (of 126) copies on Fabriano paper. Designed and printed at Black Stone Press.
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$20.00NY: Norton (1997). First US edition. xxi + 306 pp w/index. Fine in very near fine dust jacket.
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$15.00London: Menard Press, 1999. First edition. xix + 105 pp w/notes & index of first lines. Fine in printed wrappers. Original German text with facing translations by Patrick Bridgewater, preceded by his introduction.
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$15.00NY: MJF Books (2000). First printing of this edition. 122 pp w/index. Fine in fine dust jacket. Foreword by Kent Nerburn.
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$20.00NY: North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2004). First edition. xviii + 122 pp w/notes. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Original German poems with facing English translations by Edward Snow, with his introduction.
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$25.00San Francisco: Zephyrus Image (1972). First edition. [20 pp]. Very good plus in sewn wrappers. Cover art by Michael Myers. Original German poems with facing English translations by Robert Bly. Zephyrus Image Magazine Number One.
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$35.00London: Lindsay Drummond, 1948. First printing of this edition. 81 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with toning to extrems, and damp-stains along spine. Original German with facing English translation by Leslie Phillips and Stefan Schimanski.
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$25.00London: Hogarth Press (1950). Later printing (this translation originally published in 1930). 243 pp. Two small spots to fore-edge, else near fine in very good dust jacket with tanned spine, wear to crown, soiling to rear panel, and inked-out price on front flap. Translated from the original German by John Linton.
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$75.00NY: North Point Press/Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2009). First edition. xxviii + 684 pp w/index of titles & first lines in German. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with light sunning to spine. Introduction by Adam Zagajewski. Rilke’s original poems with facing English translation by Edward Snow.
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$475.00Stuttgart: Adolf Bonz, 1899. Small 8vo; 4 leaves, pp. [1]-165, 1 leaf of publisher's ads, complete. Trivial wear to top of spine and to corner of spine label, else a nice copy in contemporary patterned paper boards with morocco spine label. First edition of these two stories, published when Rilke was 24. One of 1000 copies printed. Neat ownership signature of Hub. Reuscher on front free endpaper.
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$75.00San Francisco: Zephyrus Image (1972). Second edition. [28 pp]. Front cover evenly sunned with some spots and discoloration, else very good in sewn wrappers. Cover art by Michael Myers. Dated (in late January ‘83) and INSCRIBED by Bly. The first ten sonnets.
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$100.00Denver: Ally Press (1977). First trade edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Ten poems taken from Rilke’s 1906 collection, BUCH DER BILDER. INSCRIBED by Bly on the front free endpaper, “For Doug Blazek / Affectionately / Robert Bly.”
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$100.00Denver: Ally Press (1977). First edition. [16 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. SIGNED by Bly on the title page. A variant issue of this title, with brown covers instead of the more commonly-found white. A very copy of the prospectus accompanies.
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$250.00San Francisco: [Jaime Robles] (1993). First edition. [18 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Original French with English translation by Winston Dutton. Fold-out photogravure plate prepared by Ken Farley. Gravure printed by Jaime Robles with Doris Simmelink. Text printed and bound by Robles. “Afternoon,” a poem by Robles in response, printed by Eric Holub at Hillside Press. One of 20 copies on Arches paper, the entire edition. -
$20.00NY: Norton (1990). First edition. 95 pp. Return stripe bottom edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Printed endorsements by Norman Dubie and Gerald Stern.
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$12.50NY: Norton (1990). First trade paperback printing. 95 pp. Very good plus in glossy illustrated wrappers. His fourth collection of poems.
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$40.00Los Angeles: Sawbone/Temple of Man (1995). First edition. 47 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems by Rios with collages by Tony Scibella. One of 200 copies. INSCRIBED by Rios, “David/Tina / we hold / it all / to the light... / love / Frankie.”
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$45.00Los Angeles: Sawbone/Temple of Man, 1996. First edition. 40 pp. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Poems and drawings. INSCRIBED by Rios, “David / It all deepens / into a soft flower / against rock... / I pray the heart / heals... / Love / Frankie.”
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$40.00Denver: Black Ace/Temple of Man (1976). First edition. [50 pp]. Fine in illustrated wrappers. Frontispiece print SIGNED by Rios. One of 350 copies. Introduction by John Thomas. Laid into this copy is a holograph note, “Love / to / All / B” which may be Bill Margolis, who was involved in the production of this title.
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$35.00Madrid: Talleres Calpe, 1925. . First edition. 8vo. Printed wrappers. 124 pp. Unopened. Very good plus.
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$10.00Fort Smith, AR:South and West Inc., 1967. First edition. Near fine in wraps. Title is spelled correctly on title page; author designed and lettered the cover.
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$40.00Washington, DC:Charioteer Press, 1989. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. 1/1000 copies.
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$40.00Helena: John B. Ritch (1941). First edition. 95 pp. Non-authorial gift inscription to the front free endpaper, else near fine in illustrated paper-covered boards with leatherette spine. No dust jacket, as issued. Poems with illustrations.
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$12.50Arlington, VA:Proteus, 1976. First edition. Very good in wraps. The badly glued text block, stapled, is loose from the wraps. Review copy with material laid in.
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$12.50Washington, DC:Washington Writers’ Publishing House, 1982. First edition. Fine in wraps. Blurbs by Josephine Jacobsen and William Packard.
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$20.00NY: Ecco (1985). First US edition. 200 pp w/notes. Fine in near fine dust jacket with sunning to spine, edging to front and rear panels. Translated from the original Greek by Edmund Keeley.
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$45.00Madison: Quixote Press [c 1969]. First edition. 4to. 24 pp. Light sunning along spine, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Introduction by Dan Georgakas and Eleni Paidoussi. Poems in English translation and in the original Greek.
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$20.00Brockport: BOA Editions, 1989. First trade paperback printing. xxii + 486 pp w/index of published and unpublished works. Spine sunned, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Translated from the original Greek, and edited by Kimon Friar and Kostas Myrsiades.
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$20.00Ellison Bay: Cross Roads Press (1995). First edition. 28 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Laid-in is a brief tls from the editor presenting this copy for review.
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$20.00Sturtevant: Wolfsong Publications (1995). First edition. 32 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers.