Lot 27
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Das Stunden-Buch enthaltend die drei Bücher:, first edition, one of 500 copies, signed & inscribed to Jakob Wassermann, Leipzig, 1905.
Hammer Price: £1,900
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Rilke (Rainer Maria) Das Stunden-Buch enthaltend die drei Bücher: Vom moenchischen Leben/ Von der Pilgerschaft/ Von der Armuth und vom Tode, first edition, number 71 of 500 copies, signed and inscribed by the author "Meinem lieben Jakob Wassermann herzlich gegeben. Rainer Maria Rilke Meudon-Val-Fleury (Auf. 1906)" on front free endpaper, printed in red & black with title-vignette, head-piece of monk in a scriptorium and initial in red by Walter Tiemann, light foxing or browning to one or two leaves, original cloth-backed printed limp grey boards, uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, corners a little worn, 8vo, Leipzig, 1905.
⁂ Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) was a German writer and an important influence on Rilke, introducing him to German literary society. It was at Wassermann's Munich apartment, in 1897, that Rilke first met Lou Andreas-Salomé, the Russian psychoanalyst who became his lover and life-long friend and confidante.
Description
Rilke (Rainer Maria) Das Stunden-Buch enthaltend die drei Bücher: Vom moenchischen Leben/ Von der Pilgerschaft/ Von der Armuth und vom Tode, first edition, number 71 of 500 copies, signed and inscribed by the author "Meinem lieben Jakob Wassermann herzlich gegeben. Rainer Maria Rilke Meudon-Val-Fleury (Auf. 1906)" on front free endpaper, printed in red & black with title-vignette, head-piece of monk in a scriptorium and initial in red by Walter Tiemann, light foxing or browning to one or two leaves, original cloth-backed printed limp grey boards, uncut, slightly rubbed and marked, corners a little worn, 8vo, Leipzig, 1905.
⁂ Jakob Wassermann (1873-1934) was a German writer and an important influence on Rilke, introducing him to German literary society. It was at Wassermann's Munich apartment, in 1897, that Rilke first met Lou Andreas-Salomé, the Russian psychoanalyst who became his lover and life-long friend and confidante.
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