The Animals in That Country
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Edition. Octavo. 21.5cm. Publisher's simultaneous wraps edition in purple and red pictorial card covers, sharing the design with the subsequent Little, Brown edition. 69pp. Wraps are clean and bright with some minor edgewear, but there is some tanning and creasing to the spine panel which detracts from the appearance a little without causing... Read More
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Good Bones
by ATWOOD, Margaret
[Toronto]: Harbourfront, 1992. First Edition. Regular Issue, one of 500 copies. Slim octavo (17.75cm); pictorial card wrappers, stapled; [8]pp. Fine. A poem issued in the "Harbourfront Reading Series" of chapbooks.
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THE ANIMALS IN THAT COUNTRY
by Atwood, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1968. First Canadian edition. The author's second book a collection of poetry. A Review copy of the scarce hardcover issue, with review slip tipped to the ffep verso. Poet Martin Booth's copy, with his book plate. Top edge heavily speckled, light foxing to boards; the dust jacket is price-clipped and permanently laminated, otherwise about very... Read More
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![You Are Happy [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/485/565/1489565485.0.m.jpg)
You Are Happy [Signed]
by ATWOOD, Margaret
New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1974. First American Edition. First Printing, cloth issue. Octavo (21cm); red paper and blue cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in yellow on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [7],8-96,[4]pp. Signed by the author on the title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $6.95). The Booker Prize-winning author's sixth collection of... Read More
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![Birds [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/965/544/1581544965.0.m.jpg)
Birds [Limited Edition, Signed]
by Atwood, Margaret (essay); SULLIVAN, Billy (illustrations)
New York: Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, 2012. First Edition. Limited Issue, one of 100 hardcover copies specially bound and signed by the author and illustrator. Octavo (23.25cm); turquoise cloth, with titling and decorations stamped in black and silver on spine and front cover; [4],5-27,[5]pp, with frontispiece and 8 illustrations by Billy Sullivan. A Fine copy, without dustjacket, as issued. ... Read More
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![The Journals of Susanna Moodie [Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/546/091/1496091546.0.m.jpg)
The Journals of Susanna Moodie [Signed]
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1970. Reprint, without the $1.95 price at upper front wrapper, and neither a code nor mention of later printings on the copyright page. Octavo (22cm); pictorial card wrappers; [10],11-64pp; illus. Signed by the author on the half-title page. Light wear to extremities, small price sticker to rear wrapper; Near Fine. An early collection of poems... Read More
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![Encounters With the Element Man [Limited Edition, Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/473/565/1489565473.0.m.jpg)
Encounters With the Element Man [Limited Edition, Signed]
by ATWOOD, Margaret
Concord, NH: William B. Ewert, Publisher, 1982. First, Limited Edition. Wrappered Issue, one of 100 numbered copies signed by the author and artist, this being copy no.34. Slim octavo (23cm); letterpress printed sheets, hand-sewn into unprinted white card wrappers; dustjacket; [2],vi,7-16,[6]pp. Fine in a Near Fine dustjacket, with a small puncture at upper spine-fold, with a faint dampstain around... Read More
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Nouvelle Histoire Universelle de l'Art
by AUBERT, Marcel, ed.; Émile Mâle, pref
Paris: Firmin-Didot et Cie Éditeurs, [1932]. First Edition. Two volumes; small quartos (26cm.); contemporary half dark green morocco over marbled boards, gilt-lettered spine in six compartments, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers; [2],viii,379; [6],420pp.; illus. throughout, many full-paged. Ex-University of Mary Washington Simpson Library with their usual markings, spine labels removed though faint glue residue remaining, spines sunned to tan,... Read More
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Mr Secretary Thurloe: Cromwell's Secretary of State, 1652-1660
by AUBREY, Philip
London: Athloe Press, [1990]. First Edition. Octavo (24cm.); publisher's cloth in white pictorial dust jacket; xiii,[3],252pp.; portrait frontispiece. Tiny chips and closed tears to jacket extremities, light toning and dust-soil, brief fraying at bottom corner of upper board, else Very Good and sound. Posthumously-published biography of John Thurloe (1616-1668), one of the most powerful men in Oliver Cromwell's cabinet.... Read More
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The Injustice Collectors
by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company / Riverside Press, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); gray cloth-covered boards, with titling and decorations stamped in red on spine and front cover; fore-edge untrimmed; dustjacket; 248pp. Bookshop sticker on front endpaper. Faint dampstain to lower spine and edges; Very Good. Dustwrapper, designed by Garrett Price, unclipped (priced $4.50) with dampstain to lower... Read More
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![The Romantic Egoists [with Signed Bookplate]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/031/185/1454185031.0.m.jpg)
The Romantic Egoists [with Signed Bookplate]
by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (21cm). Original black cloth, backed and stamped in red, with black dust jacket; plain endpapers; [x],210pp. Signed bookplate laid in at front. A straight copy, spine darkened, endpapers discolored: Very Good. Jacket unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly rubbed, minor browning to rear: Very Good. Short story collection by the National Medal... Read More
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![The Injustice Collectors [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/627/345/1383345627.0.m.jpg)
The Injustice Collectors [Signed Bookplate Laid-in]
by AUCHINCLOSS, Louis
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1950. First Edition. Signed bookplate laid-in. First Printing. Octavo (21cm); full gray cloth boards embossed in red on cover and spine; dustjacket; 248pp.; Fine; Dustjacket is un-clipped (priced $2.50), light edgewear, with a few closed tears along bottom edge, sunning to spine panel, a very good copy. Bookplate signed by the author laid in at the... Read More
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![Russian Literature & Art: Auction 29 October, 2008 [Sale NY017]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/250/920/1256920250.0.m.jpg)
Russian Literature & Art: Auction 29 October, 2008 [Sale NY017]
by BLOOMSBURY AUCTIONS
New York: Bloomsbury Auctions, 2008. First Edition. Slim quarto (29.5cm.); publisher's pictorial card wrappers; 159pp.; color illus. throughout. Light shelf wear, shallow crease to bottom fore-edge corner of upper cover, else Very Good to Near Fine. Bilingual (English and Russian) promotional booklet laid in.
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![Spring in Wartime" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. 1, No. 7](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/875/543/1581543875.0.m.jpg)
Spring in Wartime" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. 1, No. 7
by AUDEN, W.H.; Cyril Connolly (ed)
London: Horizon, 1940. First Edition. Light gray-green printed wraps (there is also an issue in beige covers); 8vo. July 1940 issue with the poem "Spring in Wartime" by Auden, also Spender, Lee, and others; a story by Elizabeth Bowen and prose by Miller. One plate. Printed subscribers note from the editors laid in. Light soiling and toning, easily very... Read More
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![At the Grave of Henry James" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. III, No. 18](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/704/539/1581539704.0.m.jpg)
At the Grave of Henry James" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. III, No. 18
by AUDEN, W.H.; Cyril Connolly (ed.)
London: Horizon, 1941. First Edition. Brown printed wraps; 8vo. 4 b/w plates including Grant Wood. June 1941 issue featuring the W. H. Auden poem "At The Grave of Henry James", and Rowse, Augustus John, Duncan Grant on Virginia Woolf, Rothenstein and Antonia White. Flyer tipped in. Light wear and toning; easily very good.
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![Antæus No. 42, Summer, 1981 [cover title: The Prolific and the Devourer]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/641/984/1033984641.0.m.jpg)
Antæus No. 42, Summer, 1981 [cover title: The Prolific and the Devourer]
by AUDEN, W.H.; Daniel Halpern, ed
Tangier / London / New York: [Ecco Press], 1981. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; 93,[19](ads)pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Jacket a bit cockled, spine quite sunned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.
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The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
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... Read More
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City Without Walls and Other Poems
by AUDEN, W.H.
New York: Random House, [1969]. First American Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original two-toned (brown and tan) cloth in brown and white price-clipped dust jacket, black topstain; [2],ix,[1],124pp. Two faint dampspots to jacket spine, one affecting topstain, else Very Good to Near Fine. See BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON A64a for the first, London, edition.
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The Orators: An English Study
by AUDEN, W.H.
New York: Random House, [1967]. First Separate American Edition. Octavo (21.75cm.); original linen-backed boards in red and tan dust jacket, black topstain; [2],viii,85pp. Some wear to jacket extremities, including small loss at top edge of rear panel, very shallow tape repair to verso, else Fine in Near Very Good jacket. Long poem first published in Great Britain in 1932.... Read More
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About the House
by AUDEN, W.H.
London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First U.K. Edition. First Impression, preceded by the American edition published six months earlier. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 94pp. Fine in a price-clipped, else Fine dustjacket, with the errata slip tipped onto Acknowledgements page. Late collection of 28 poems, issued in a print run of 4,000 copies.... Read More
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![Spring in Wartime" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. 1, No. 7](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/657/536/1581536657.0.m.jpg)
Spring in Wartime" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. 1, No. 7
by AUDEN, W.H.; Cyril Connolly (ed)
London: Horizon, 1940. First Edition. Light beige printed wraps (there is also an issue in gray covers); 8vo. July 1940 issue with the poem "Spring in Wartime" by Auden, also Spender, Lee, and others; a story by Elizabeth Bowen and prose by Miller. One plate. Light soiling, wear and toning, else very good.
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SECONDARY WORLDS. T.S.Eliot Memorial Lectures
by Auden, W. H.
London: Faber & Faber, 1968. First edition. Some light red ink notes on rear end papers with a few related ticks in the text by the art critic John Russell, from whose library this came; though no signature. A tight but only better than good copy in a soiled but very good dust jacket.
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HOMAGE TO CLIO
by Auden, W. H.
New York: Random House, 1960. First U.S. Edition. First printing. Cloth-backed boards in dust jacket; 8vo. This edition precedes the UK. Light edgewear and minor offsetting and foxing to the endpapers; the dust jacket has a crease on the back panel, and light edgewear as well. Overall at least Very Good. Bloomfield & Mendelson A42.a.
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JUVENILIA 1922-1928
by Auden, W. H.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994. First edition. Gathers over 200 poems written from the ages of 15 to 21, most published for the first time. The volume concludes with the contents of his first book, the privately printed POEMS.
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![The Fall of Rome" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. XV, No. 87](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/144/537/1581537144.0.m.jpg)
The Fall of Rome" [in] HORIZON: A Review of Literature and Art, Vol. XV, No. 87
by AUDEN, W.H.; Cyril Connolly (ed)
London: Horizon, 1947. First Edition. Light tan printed wraps; 8vo. April 1947 issue with "The Fall of Rome" by Auden, and an article about Hemingway by Warren. Easily very good copy.
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