1943 Rare Giannini Binding - Italian Edition of The Love and Death of Cornet Christopher Rilke by Rainer Maria Rilke. #55.Author: Rainer Maria Rilke. Title: Canto d'amore e di morte del Cornet Christoph Rilke. Publisher: Firenze, Giulio Giannini & Figlio Editori, 1943. Limited edition of 500 copies, this one being the #55. Language: Text in Italian Size: 7" x 5". Pages: 43 pages. Binding: Attractive, rare, and very good vellum binding finely bound and illuminated by the Giannini Family (hinges fine, overall slightly worn and scuffed as shown, small tear to the upper

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and the poem The Hunting of the Snark – all examples of the genre of literary nonsense

"Eisen’s 85 designs for La Fontaine [first published in 1762] are the liveliest and most adroit that he ever drew

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The author: A scarce and sought-after first French edition of "La Rose de Jericho"

An Autobiography

bright and clean

by James Hannay

Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson

has been translated into more than 200 languages

he believes that he's been transported into a fairy tale

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