Im Insel Verlag

Published by Insel Verlag, '201. Bis 230' (Ritzer, Rainer Maria Rilke Bibliographie, E56).

Bound in half green shagreen, smooth spine with minor rubbing to spine-ends, a scratch at the head of one joint, marbled paper boards, top-edge gilt, contemporary binding.

Rare and precious signed and dated inscribed copy by Rainer Maria Rilke to August Friedrich Ammann:
"To Mr. August F. Ammann In exchange, a small version of the great Reiss ins Globte Land (almost contemporary in content): Rainer Maria Rilke (Muzot, March 17, 1922)."
Herrn August F. Ammann Als eine kleine, der grossen „Reiss ins Globte Land" (inhaltlich fast zeitgenössische) Gegen - Gabe : Rainer Maria Rilke (Muzot, am 17. März 1922).

Superb autograph inscription from Rilke to the uncle of Nanny Wunderly-Volkart, a young Swiss admirer and patron with whom he maintained an extensive correspondence.

First edition of the German translation by Rainer-Maria Rilke, one of 400 numbered copies on handmade paper, the only print after 50 Japan.
Binding of the editor in blue cardboard half, smooth back of vellum cream cardboard, monogram of the publisher struck gold on the first board, gilded head, complete copy of his shirt and its case in flexible cardboard covered with same orange paper as the shirt.
Rare and precious autograph dedication dated and signed by Rainer-Maria Rilke to Maurice Betz: "... on the eve of our" notebooks ", this happy effort, complementary to his own Rainer-Maria Rilke (Val-Mont, May 1926 ). "
Small rips without gravity on the orange paper shirt.
Nice copy.