Oct 24, 2013 - Sale 2327

Sale 2327 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 3,500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(CRANACH PRESS.) Rilke, Rainer Maria. Duineser Elegien / Elegies from the Castle of Duino. Translated from the German of Rainer Maria Rilke by Vita and Edward Sackville West. Printed in red and black with dual text in English and German; initials designed by Eric Gill, type designed by Edward Johnston, cut by E.Prince & G.T.Friend. Tall 8vo, publisher's gilt-lettered 1/4 vellum; calf-edged slipcase. number 158 of 230 copies designed by Harry Kessler, printed on handmade Maillol-Kessler paper and signed by the translators. (Leipzig and London: Cranach Press, for Hogarth Press, 1931)