Small volume 17 x 11.5 cm, bound in tan cloth with brown lettering to front cover and spine, gilt fillets to spine, in wood-engraved pictorial dust jacket; pp.: [1-4] 5-254 [2], total 256 pages; collated in-16mo: [1]-8¹⁶, total 128 leaves; wood-engraved portrait frontispiece within collation. Print run: 35,000 copies.

Title-page (red and black): Райнер Мария Рильке | ЛИРИКА | Перевод с немецкого | Т. Сильман | {publisher’s device} | Издательство «Художественная литература» | Москва • 1956 • Ленинград ||

Contributors:

Rainer Maria Rilke (German, 1875 – 1926)

Тамара Исааковна Сильман (Russian-Jewish, 1909 – 1974)

Владимир Григорьевич Адмони (Russian-Jewish, 1909 – 1993)