Das Stunden-Buch, Enthaltend Die Drei Bücher: Vom Moenschischen Leben, Von Der Pilgerschaft, Von Der Armuth Und Vom Tode.

Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1935 (1914). Later printing of the first edition. Small octavo in grey illus cloth and original offfwhite jacket; 107p. Remarkably fine copy with faintest of foxing to prelimaries; in an about very good jacket now in archival mylar. Hardcover.

In German black letter (fraktur). Poetry. Translated into English as The Book of Hours. " A series of meditative, devotional poems addressed to a deeply personal conception of God, rendered in mystical and intimate tones. Rilke draws on monastic imagery, pilgrimage, spiritual poverty, and death not as themes of renunciation, but as doorways to a transcendent interiority. The poems are suffused with longing, solitude, and revelation, giving voice to a God who is at once distant and immanent, unknowable yet intimately present."