ORPHEUS. A Version of Rilke's Die Sonette an Orpheus.

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Original black cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the contents clean throughout and without previous owner's marks. Complete with the original dustwrapper that is just a touch faded at the spine and otherwise clean and without loss or tears. Not price-clipped (£12.99 on the front flap).

Signed by Don Paterson in blue ink on the title page. Paterson's reinterpretation of Rainer Maria Rilke's 'Die Sonette an Orpheus' ('Sonnets to Orpheus'), a cycle of 55 sonnets which came to him in a brief creative frenzy in 1922 and is often thought of as his masterpiece, along with 'Duino Elegies'.