THE DYER'S HAND
by AUDEN, W. H
London: Faber & Faber, (1963). First British Edition. Hardcover. Hinges fairly neatly repaired. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Bloomfield A45b: 3000 copies, preceded by the American edition which had a larger printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To/Hedwig [Petzold]/with love/from /Wystan" in 1963 on the front free endpaper and with seven manuscript corrections by Auden in the text. Sensational association copy! According to Humphrey Carpenter in W. H. AUDEN: A BIOGRAPHY (p. 69), Auden's "first sexual experience with a woman... Read More
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TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) to Lewis Mumford
by AUDEN, W. H
Birmingham, 14 September 1938. Letter. Crease from folding, otherwise about Fine. Superb 1-1/2 page TYPED LETTER SIGNED on both sides of an 8-1/2" x 11" sheet of paper to American historian, philosopher, and literary critic Lewis Mumford. In part: "I nearly wrote you a fan letter once before, when I read CIVILIZATION AND TECHNICS, and now, having just finished THE CULTURE OF CITIES, I feel I must say that, to me, they are two of the most interesting... Read More
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THANK YOU, FOG
by AUDEN, W. H
London: Faber & Faber, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. Some bowing of the boards, otherwise Fine in a Fine, price-clipped dustwrapper. First English Edition. Preceded by the American edition published the same year. Auden's final collection published after his death.
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POETS AT WORK
by AUDEN, W. H.; SHAPIRO, Karl; ARNHEIM, Rudolf; STAUFFER, Donald
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1948). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in Near Fine, bright dustwrapper with minor edgewear. Bloomfield B35: 2500 copies. Essays on poets at work illustrated with reproductions of typescripts and manuscripts by poets.
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AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT POEM (Juvenilia - 4 pages): "Bank Holiday"
by AUDEN, W. H
[1926]. Manuscript. Several words on the last page are partly faded and obliterated by a repaired tear. A spectacular find in Good to Very Good condition. Exceptionally scarce 4-page AUTOGRAPH MANUSCRIPT of a poem written by Auden as a teenager. Published in THE OXFORD OUTLOOK in November 1926 and not published in book form until 1994 in W. H. AUDEN JUVENILIA edited by Katherine Bucknell, from which much of the information below was acquired. Two other manuscript copies... Read More
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PORTRAITS. Poems
by AUDEN, W. H
(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1966. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine. M. W. Brower. Printed brown wraps. Illustrated with wood engravings by M[argaret] W. Brower. Copy #15 of only 20 printed. Poems by Auden about E. M. Forster, Matthew Arnold, Herman Melville, and Edward Lear.
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![THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO [FOR THE TIME BEING]: CARBON COPY OF A TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH CHORAL SETTINGS](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/832/336/250336832.0.l.1.jpg)
THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO [FOR THE TIME BEING]: CARBON COPY OF A TYPED MANUSCRIPT WITH CHORAL SETTINGS
by AUDEN, W. H
wraps. Good and possibly unique. A 43-page 7-3/4" x 13-3/4" carbon copy typescript laid loosely into a makeshift folder consisting of a large piece of graph paper with the title THE CHRISTMAS ORATORIO/W. H. AUDEN written in pencil in an unknown hand on the front cover. Not dated. Occasional minor ink corrections also in an unknown hand. There were two early typescripts for the poem, neither typed by Auden. One was double-spaced and the other single-spaced. This version... Read More
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THE AGE OF ANXIETY
by AUDEN, W. H
New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Owner name on front endpaper and copious but light pencil notes on rear endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some darkening and soiling. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.
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SUE
by AUDEN, W. H
(Oxford): (Sycamore Press), (1977). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Single three-folded sheet. Sycamore Broadsheet 23. A previously unpublished ninety-two line ballad.
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THE AGE OF ANXIETY
by AUDEN, W. H
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British Edition. Hardcover. Very mild foxing to the endpapers and slight soiling to the spine. Mild sunning to dustwrapper spine and the briefest of wear to the crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b: 3000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the previous year which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
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T. S. Eliot So Far" in THE GRIFFIN
by (AUDEN, W. H.)
New York: The Readers' Subscription, 1953. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Fine. An 8-page pamphlet in blue stapled wraps including a 3-page essay by Auden on Eliot's COMPLETE POEMS AND PLAYS. Bloomfield & Mendelson C413.
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THE MAGIC FLUTE. AN OPERA IN TWO ACTS
by AUDEN, W. H and KALLMAN, Chester
London: Faber & Faber, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in about Fine dustwrapper. First British Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A37b: 2090 copies printed; preceded by the American edition. An English version of the libretto for Mozart's opera after the libretto of Schikaneder and Giesecke.
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VOLUSPA: THE SONG OF THE SYBIL
by AUDEN, W. H. & TAYLOR, Paul B. (translators)
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Just about Fine, issued without a dustwrapper. Gilt-lettered boards. One of 450 copies printed on Rives Heavy paper. The decorative brackets and frontispiece were adapted by Mary Ellen McFadden from early Icelandic representations of Thor's hammer. The Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor and translated by Taylor and W .H. Auden. SIGNED by Auden after his crossed-out name on the title page.
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ON THE FRONTIER. A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS
by AUDEN, W. H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
London: Faber & Faber, (1938). First British Edition. Hardcover. Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. Bloomfield & Mendelson A18: 3000 copies printed, preceding the American edition.
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JUVENILIA. POEMS 1922 - 1928
by AUDEN, W. H [BUCKNELL, Katherine (editor)]
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. A compilation of over 200 poems from Auden's youth, including 22 newly discovered poems and the contents of the privately printed volume POEMS (1928).
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AUDEN: A CARNIVAL OF INTELLECT
by [AUDEN, W. H.] CALLAN, Edward
New York: Oxford University, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. Callan traces the development of Auden's art from its beginnings to his death.
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A BEGINNING
by [AUDEN, W. H.] HORAN, Robert
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine tips and corners. Bloomfield & Mendelson B36: 1014 copies. Horan's first book, with a 4-page foreword by W. H. Auden. This copy SIGNED by Auden on the front endpaper and quite uncommon thus.
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LOST TREASURES OF EUROPE
by [AUDEN, W. H.] LA FARGE, Henry (editor)
(New York): Pantheon Books, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. Fading to cloth. About Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Illustrated with 427 photographs. On the front endpaper Auden has SIGNED and INSCRIBED the book to "Herbert and Helen [Santoff]/with love/from/Wystan/Christmas 1946." Several silver print photographs of a church laid in.
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PLAYS AND OTHER DRAMATIC WRITINGS 1928 - 1938 BY W. H. AUDEN AND CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD
by AUDEN, W. H [MENDELSON, Edward (editor)]
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Fine dustwrapper. Includes dramatic works created by both authors together, including two that appear in print for the first time: THE ENEMIES OF A BISHOP and THE CHASE, authored by Auden alone.
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AUDEN. AN AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP
by [AUDEN, W. H.] MILLER, Charles
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper. An intimate memoir of Auden based on journals kept by Charles Miller, a student when Auden taught at the University of Michigan who served him as a cook and a companion.
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FIRST WILL & TESTAMENT
by [AUDEN, W. H.] PATCHEN, Kenneth
New York: New Directions, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. Backstrip darkened, a few nicks in the cloth. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. Patchen's second book, consisting of 800 copies, this copy INSCRIBED "with respect and admiration" for W. H. Auden on 10 May 1940 and SIGNED by Patchen. Patchen's first book brought him much acclaim including comparisons to Auden, unlikely as that might seem now. Among Patchen's accomplishments was the initiation of the poetry-and-jazz movement in the late 1950s.... Read More
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ON POETRY
by [AUDEN, W. H.] PERSE, St.-John
(New York): Bollingen Series, (1961). First Edition. wraps. Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson B77. Published in an edition of 2500 copies, none of which were for sale, in white card covers with a grayish green printed wrapper. This is St.-John Perse's Nobel Acceptance Speech translated by Auden and printed here in both the original French and Auden's English translation. SIGNED by Auden on the title page. Quite uncommon, especially signed.
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THE TWELVE. AN ANTHEM FOR THE FEAST OF ANY APOSTLE
by (AUDEN, W. H.) WALTON, William
Oxford: Oxford University, (1966). First Edition. wraps. Skimmed spot on front cover from the removal of, likely, an address label judging by its size and shape. Very Good. Bloomfield & Mendelson B97: 3000 copies in stapled printed wraps, 30 pages, 10" x 7". Auden wrote the words to Walton's piece, first performed at Oxford in 1965.
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THE QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA
by AUDUBON, John James and BACHMAN, Rev. John
New York: V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Owner name dated 1876 on first blank of each volume. Toning, foxing, and darkening, sometimes heavy, to the text and a bit less so to the plates. Binding quite nice. Overall Very Good. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7"... Read More
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THE QUADRUPEDS OF NORTH AMERICA
by AUDUBON, John James and BACHMAN, Rev. John
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Some generally minor toning and spotting to the text, as usual, a few plate imprints slightly shaved; the tissue guards are occasionally a bit foxed and discolored, but the plates are bright and free from foxing and other defects. Tears with slight loss to lower margin of pages 3-6 and to the margin of Plate XVI, text and image not affected. Hinges reinforced with cloth, first signature of first volume... Read More
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