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According to Breitkopf in Germany, Score and orchestra material of the 1st Violin Concerto are lost. You cannot rent it from them.
The last copies apparently got destroyed or lost in WW2.
After a long search, a handwritten copy (in a copyist's handwriting) of the score was found. Comparing it with the violn/piano edition, there are minor changes besides a lot of obvious writing errors. Apparently, Grädener had changed a few things in the process of creating the piano reduction or while proofreading it. Usually, the composers at that time made the piano reductions themselves if not otherwise mentioned.
That means, score and parts will be newly written after comparing them carefully with the printed violin/piano edition, which is almost without misprints.

For all those interested in Hermann Grädener:
Good news!
Violin Concertos No.1 and 2 will be recorded in July 2018. Label of publication not yet clear, perhaps Naxos.
Score of Concerto No.1 got lost in 2nd world war (was publ. by Breitkopf & Härtel). Newly rewritten now. The first concerto had been premiered on 21.12.1890 in a concert of the Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Hans Richter, soloist Adolf Brodsky.

I've just discovered in two scores of mine, given to me by someone cleaning his basement several years ago, the signatures of Johanna Müller-Hermann, to whom these books belonged. As can be seen, she lived in the first district of Vienna, Hegelgasse 7, very close to both the concert houses of Vienna. Also in the batch of music was a conductor's score of Strauss' Don Juan with the stamp "J.B.Foerster" on it, who was one of the teachers of Johanna Müller-Hermann.