first edition
1948 · London
by AUDEN, W.H.
London: Faber and Faber, 1948. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, preceded by the American edition published the previous year. Octavo; yellow cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 126pp. Sunning to spine and upper board edges, with contemporary owners name to front endpaper; Very Good+. Dustjacket is price-clipped, spine-sunned, with wear along edges and a few tiny tears; Very Good+. A long poem taking the form of a dialogue between a woman and three men in a bar and an apartment on New York's West Side. Printed in a small run of 3,000 copies. BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON A29b. (Inventory #: 19256)