Sonnets to Orpheus

London: The Hogarth Press, 1946. Second Edition. Octavo (22cm); mustard cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in red on spine; [6],7-173,[3]pp. Text in German and English. This copy is from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown and his occasional pencilled marks throughout. Lightly spine-faded, with modest shelf-wear and -soil; Very Good.

First published as Die Snette an Orpheus (1923), with its first English translation in 1936. Collection of verse dedicated for a deceased friend of the poet's daughter, and includes the preface from the First Edition and a new preface written for this Second Edition. [87376].