RARE! LIMITED EDITION of 900 COPIES - COPY No.138. Part of `Trilogie der Leidenschaft`, the `Marienbad Elegy` reflects the sadness he felt when Baroness Ulrike von Levetzow declined his proposal for marriage and is considered one of Goethe`s finest and most personal poems which he showed only to his closest friends. Includes a small gilt leather Hardcover booklet (158x170mm) - a facsimile of a notebook in which Goethe wrote his poem. 278x192mm. 155 pages & 70 pages. Softcover laid in slipcase with brown cloth spine. Gilt lettering on spine. Black lettering on slipcase front side, front cover and spine. Slipcase and slipcase spine slightly stained. Slipcase spine front hinge edges partly cracked. Pen and bump-marks on slipcase upper edge. Previous owner`s small stamp on front inner cover. [SUMMARY]: This extremely rare facsimile edition of a farewell poem to love by the most celebrated German writer and poet is in very good condition.