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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![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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The Enchaféd Flood: or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea [Jacket title: Three Critical Essays on the Romantic Spirit]
by AUDEN, W.H.
New York: Random House, 1950. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (19.5cm); green cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in white on spine and front cover; dustjacket; [x],[2],3-154,[4]pp. Front endpaper has embossed bookplate of Robert M. Johnson (1945 -), former publisher of Newsday who later pled guilty for possession of pornography and destroying evidence. Light rubbing to spine ends and board... Read More
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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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Plays and Other Dramatic Writings by W.H. Auden, 1928-1938
by AUDEN, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood (plays); MENDELSON, Edward (editor)
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1988. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (24cm); dark red flexible cloth boards, blocked and titled in black and gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxxiv,[7],8-680pp. Fine in a Fine dustjacket. Contains a decade's worth of collaborations between Auden and Isherwood, with a lengthy introduction, appendices, and textual notes. Issued in The Complete Works of W.H. Auden series.... Read More
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The Magic Flute: an Opera in Two Acts. Music by W.A. Mozart; English version after the Libretto of Schikaneder and Giesecke
by AUDEN, W.H. and Chester Kallman, trans.; Rouben Ter-Arutunian, illus
New York: Random House, [1956]. First Edition. First printing. Octavo (23.25cm.); original cloth-backed boards in pictorial dust jacket, black topstain; xv,[5],108pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout. Some general edge wear to jacket extremities, most notably at spine ends, spine rather sunned, else Very Good and sound. BLOOMFIELD & MENDELSON A37a.
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THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN
by Auden, W.H. & Christopher Isherwood
New York: Random House, 1935. First Edition. Original cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 161 pp. Very good in a fair jacket, the spine mostly perished, although flaps are complete. A serviceable copy.
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The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts
by AUDEN, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood
New York: Random House, [1937]. First American Edition. Octavo (22cm.); original cloth in pale grey pictorial dust jacket; 123pp. Minor edge wear, spine toned, very shallow losses to spine ends, else Very Good and sound. Published in a print run of 1500 copies. Orginally published in Great Britain the previous year "against our will," with this edition substantially revised... Read More
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The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two Acts
by AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
London: Faber and Faber, 1936. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; 123pp. Cloth mildly toned at extremities; a few specks of foxing to front endpapers, still a tight, Very Good or better copy. In the original dustwrapper, all four corners clipped by publisher but original price remaining at base... Read More
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THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF SYDNEY SMITH
by Auden, W. H. (Editor); Sydney Smith
New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy, 1956. First Edition. Orange cloth in dust jacket; large 8vo. (vii, xx) 396 pp. Edited with an introduction by Auden of this first comprehensive collection of the letters and essays of the English parson, Whig, "the most famous wit of his generation" (1771-1845). A near fine copy in a dust jacket moderately chipped... Read More
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On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts
by AUDEN, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) and Christopher Isherwood
New York: Random House, 1938. First American Edition. First Printing, one of 1,275 copies. Octavo (23.5cm); beige cloth-covered boards, with titling and blocking stamped in red and black on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 120pp. Sunning to spine and board edges, with light off-setting to pastedowns; Very Good+. Dustwrapper, price-clipped, tanned, with nick to spine panel, and tiny chips... Read More
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![A Certain World: A Commonplace Book [Uncorrected Proof]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/161/166/1690166161.0.m.jpg)
A Certain World: A Commonplace Book [Uncorrected Proof]
by AUDEN, W.H. [Wystan Hugh]
New York: Random House, 1970. Scarce pre-publication proof, issued for review purposes. Octavo. Side-sewn sheets in unprinted wrappers; dustjacket; 438pp. Fine, in the original dustwrapper with $10.00 price on front flap, lightly dusted, still Near Fine.
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Forewords & Afterwords
by AUDEN, W.H. [Wystan Hugh]; Edward Mendelson (ed)
New York: Random House, 1973. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Beige cloth over boards, backed in contrasting black cloth; gilt titles; blue publisher's top-stain; dustjacket; 529pp. A fine, unmarked copy but for a small spot of fading to top-stain. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $12.95 on front flap), mildly dusted but still crisp and unworn, very Near Fine.... Read More
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Audubon: Early Drawings
by [AUDUBON] SNODGRASS, Jennifer (ed); Leslie A. Morris, fwd
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008. First Edition. First printing. Oblong quarto; cloth boards; publisher's slipcase; 252pp. Fine, apparently unread copy in a fine slipcase - a new-appearing copy.
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![Here's Looking At You: A Phrenoanalytical Psychology [Inscribed and Signed]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/084/966/1250966084.0.m.jpg)
Here's Looking At You: A Phrenoanalytical Psychology [Inscribed and Signed]
by AUERBACH, Henry B.
New York: Vantage Press, [1953]. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); publisher's cloth in black pictorial price-clipped dust jacket; xix,[1],396pp.; eight leaves of plates, text illus. throughout by the author. Jacket extremities chipped and rubbed; Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Warmly inscribed and signed by the author on front free endpaper.
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Labor and Liberty: the La Follette Committee & the New Deal
by AUERBACH, Jerold S.
Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1966. First Edition. Octavo. Cloth boards; dustjacket; 246pp. Tight, Very Good or better copy in lightly rubbed dustwrapper, Near Fine.
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Grand Mémento Encyclopédique Larousse
by AUGÉ, Paul
Paris: Librairie Larousse, 1936-37. First Edition. Quarto (30cm). Two volumes in black leatherette, stamped in gilt and blind; green and taupe patterned endpapers; vol. I: viii,1048pp; vol. II: [iv],1096pp; color maps, full-page color illustrations laid down on inserted leaves, and black and white illustrations throughout. Bookplates of noted zoologist James G. Mead, Curator Emeritus of Marine Mammals at the... Read More
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A Poetical Essay on the First Good and the First Fair. With Salutatory Addresses
by AULD, J[edediah] B.
New-York: Published by the Class, 1835. First Edition. Octavo (22cm.); self-wrappers; 16pp. Some wear and dust-soil, else Very Good, internally sound. Address delivered by undergraduate Jedediah Auld at commencement of Columbia College (now University).
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Burmese Drama: a Study, with Translations, of Burmese Plays
by AUNG, Maung Htin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1957. Fourth impression (first published 1937). Octavo. Pictorial, stiff card wrappers; French flaps; xx,266pp. Very Good copy, with occasional faint pencil marks in margins. Bookseller stamp to title page ("City Book Club - Rangoon"). From the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, with his figural ink ownership stamp to front endpaper. History... Read More
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Pagan: The Origins of Modern Burma
by AUNG-THWIN, Michael
Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1985. First Edition. Octavo (24cm); gray cloth-covered boards with titling stamped in gilt on spine; dustjacket; xxii,[1],2-264,[4]pp; photographic frontispiece with illustrations throughout text. This copy from the library of noted poet, translator, and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn (1928-2024), with his pictorial bookplate to front pastedown. Slight indentation to fore-edge of front board, with pencilled notes... Read More
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Living Hand 1, Fall, 1973
by AUSTER, Paul and Mitchell Sisskind, eds
[Salisbury, Wilts: Compton Press Ltd, 1973]. First Edition. Octavo (21cm.); publisher's white card wrappers illustrated by Joan Mitchell; 85pp. Near Fine. Inaugural issue includes contributions by Georges Bataille, Lydia Davis, Paul Auster, and others.
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Hantai: Paintings Watercolors 1971-1975
by [AUSTER, Paul] Bonnefoi, Genevieve
New York: Pierre Matisse Gallery, 1975. First Edition. Quarto. Plain, staple-bound paper wrappers; pictorial dustwrapper; [10]pp; illus. Fine copy in a fresh, unworn dustwrapper. Catalogue for an exhibition of paintings and watercolors by the Hungarian artist Simon Hantai. 22 works illustrated. Text by Genevieve Bonnefoi, with the translation credit to a very young Paul Auster. An extremely early Auster... Read More
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Translations [Review Copy]
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Marsilio Publishers, 1997. First Edition. First Printing, a review copy, with the publisher's promotional letter laid in. Octavo; illustrated wrappers; 407, [1]pp. Tiny stain to upper edge of textblock, else a Fine copy. A trade paperback original, collecting four works by Stephane Mallarme, Joseph Joubert, Andre Du Bouchet and Philippe Petitt, translated by Auster with a new... Read More
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Ground Work: Selected Poems and Essays 1970-1979
by AUSTER, Paul
London: Faber and Faber, 1990. First U.K. Edition. First Impression. Octavo; black textured paper over boards, with titles stamped in white on spine; dustjacket; 226pp. Rough erasure to front endpaper, else Fine in a Near Fine, unclipped dustjacket, with some trivial edgewear to note. A collection of Auster's poems and essays from the 1970's, with no US equivalent. ... Read More
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![Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure [Advance Copy]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/086/524/913524086.0.m.jpg)
Hand to Mouth: A Chronicle of Early Failure [Advance Copy]
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1997. First Edition. Octavo; photo-illustrated wrappers; 449pp. Faint stains to lower and right edges of textblock, else clean throughout, giving every appearance of being unread; Very Good+. Memoir of Auster's early years in New York and Paris, "the story of a young man's struggle to stay afloat.
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