18 x 11 cm. 26 pages. With one colored coat of arms. Original half-parchment binding with spine title. - First edition of Rilke's famous publication. Only 300 numbered copies were printed. This work is one of his most famous and later sold hundreds of thousands of copies. It is practically untraceable as a first edition today. An exceptionally fine copy. - Ritzer E 56. - Mieses 43. - Wilpert/Gühring 2/20. - Schauer, Volume II, 9 with illustration.