RILKE Rainer Maria (translated and illustrated by Harry BEHN) — The Duino Elegies

Mount Vernon, Peter Pauper Press 1957 c. 60pp (unpaginated), bw illustrations. 19x12, illustrated boards with identical illustrated dw. Review copy, with the 'not for resale' stamp on ffep inked over, dw slightly rubbed and price clipped, very good thus. Rilke's mystical poems have been translated many times, and in many different ways; this very attractive little edition includes Behn's lovely illustrations. Behn was a screenwriter and children's author, as well as a poet in his own right.