Folder 2: Two sets of 20 black ink woodcuts on Batchelor paper, 29 x 22cm., representing the original plan. Original plan numbers are embossed in the lower left hand corner of each print. Each set varies in positioning.

The final work of the Nobel Prize winner G#65533;nter Grass--a witty and elegiac series of meditations on writing, growing old, the world In spite of the trials of old age, and with the end in sight, suddenly everything seems possible again: love letters, soliloquies, scenes of jealousy, swan songs, social satire, and moments of happiness crowd onto the page. Only an aging artist who has once more cheated death can set to work with such wisdom, defiance,...

Folder 3: First complete set of 24 black and white proofs of woodcuts pulled at the Bauer Type Foundry, in which the horizontal positioning of the cuts were established, shown in green ink. 29 x 22 cm.

24 prints, printed in black, hand-colored on Japanese paper, with text sketched in graphite, enclosed in a red cardboard portfolio, closed with thin black leather straps. Each print is matted with gray green paper and mounted on a cream card.

Folder 4: 21 black and woodcut prints on white paper with calligraphy sketched in graphite, establishing head and foot margins, 26 x 19 cm. Set is incomplete, prints 1, 2, and 24 are missing.

"The definitive bilingual version of Rilke's New Poems--faithful to the original German, with insightful commentary on every poem. Rainer Maria Rilke is one of the world's best-selling poets, and New Poems contains many of his most iconic pieces. Throughout, Rilke he is obsessed with shapes and different layers of physical containment--from an image held in a panther's eye to a cathedral window. Translator Joseph Cadora has created the definitive...

"This is a book about Vienna in 1815, at the close of the Napoleonic era and the Napoleonic wars, and on the verge of the Congress of Vienna, which would redraw national boundaries and reconfigure the European community for a full century. Beethoven and Schubert were both citizens of Vienna at this time, Beethoven half-way through his composing career and socially withdrawn because of his almost total deafness; Schubert not yet twenty years-old and...