The Sonnets To Orpheus; With Engravings By Kurt Roesch

New York: Wittenborn & Co, 1944. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher pale blue boards, spine lettered in gilt in matching dust wrapper. Fine in very good original black slipcase with mottling to spine. Roesch, Kurt. [76] pages, 9 unnumbered leaves of plates. 41 x 26.5 cm. Limited edition, copy XX of XXXV numbered and signed copies designed by S.A Jacobs, printed by The Golden Eagle Press on hand-made Arches paper. Each plate designed and engraved with illustrations on copper by Kurt Roesch, whose signature also appears on the colophon page. "Dedication The Sonnets To Orpheus Written As A Monument For Vera Ouckama Knoop Chateau De Muzot February 1922." Since his work was translated in the 1930s, Rilke has never lost his significance for English-speaking poets. Text in German and English. A German born American painter Roesch taught at Sarah Lawrence College from 1934 to 1972. One image we present has a Star of David bottom margin.