Celan, Paul.

the poems being "Auf Reisen", "Landschaft", "Der Tauben weißeste flog auf", "Das ganze Leben", "Wasser und Feuer", "Kristall", "Die Jahre von dir zu mir" and "Sie kämmte ihr Haar", the typescripts containing a large number of apparently autograph entries, chiefly letters missing from the typed text due to the faulty striking action of Celan's typewriter (principally the letters 'A' and 'a'), one word cancelled in "Wasser und Feuer", 6 pages, 4to (c.27 x 20.8cm), carbon typescripts, no place or date [Paris, c.1952-1954], light browning, a few very small marks and stains, central horizontal fold, a few corners creased--with Paul Valéry, Die Junge Parze Ins Deutsche übertragen von Paul Celan, Wiesbaden: Insel-Verlag, 1960, inscribed by Celan with a quotation from Valéry's lyric on the front free endpapers, 34 pages, large 4to (33 x 21cm)

Paul Celan Werke. Historisch-Kritische Ausgabe, I. Abtheilung/Band 2,2/3,2 (Frankfurt, 2003), pp. 185ff. ("Die Jahre von dir zu mir": source H^1a), 189ff. ("Das ganze Leben": source H^5*), 205ff. ("Auf Reisen": source H^2*), 221 ("Kristall": source H^1d), 255 ("Landschaft": source H^1c), 237ff. ("Der Tauben weißeste": source H²), 250ff. ("Sie kämmt ihr Haar": source H^2*) and 258ff. ("Wasser und Feuer": source H²) 

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All the poems in this collection of corrected typescripts were published in the volume that made the poet's reputation in Germany, Mohn und Gedächtnis (1952), although six of them had appeared in print before:  "Das ganze Leben" (Plan, ii, 1948); "Die Jahre von dir zu mir" und "Auf Reisen" (Der Sand der Urnen, September 1948); "Kristall" (Surrealistische Publikationen, April 1950); "Wasser und Feuer" and "Sie kämmt ihr Haar" (Das Lot, June 1952). The manuscripts diverge in a number of points from the edition of the relevant poems in the historical-critical edition of Celan's works (for example, line 11 of "Wasser und Feuer" here has 'der Wind fuellt den Becher' instead of '...füllt die Becher', and "Auf Reisen" here bears a dedication - 'Fuer Erich Fried').