TURANDOT AND OTHER POEMS
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Wrappers are slightly darkened with two round oily stains on the rear, not too dark. The front wrapper has one short closed tear neatly repaired internally with tape and a sliver chip on the lower right corner with the detached piece still present. Very Good to Near Fine example... Read More
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TURANDOT AND OTHER POEMS
by ASHBERY, John
New York: Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Wrappers neatly strengthened internally with professional paper repairs to a few small chips at the top and bottom as well as to the bottom margin of a few pages towards the end. Near Fine example of this scarce book. Jane Freilicher. Ashbery's first book, a 23-page chapbook in... Read More
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THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
by ASSISI, Saint Francis of
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1930. Hardcover. Near Fine, lacking the slipcase. Paoli Molnar. Quarto (8-1/8" x 11-5/8") bound in cloth specially woven in blue and tan by Fortuny of Venice. The first English translation of 1864 revised by Dom Roger Hudleston. Designed and printed on deckle-edge mold-made paper by Hans Mardersteig at the Officina Bodoni in Verona,... Read More
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![LE COLONIE UNITE DELL'AMERICA SETTENTR[IONA]LE. DI NUOVO PROJEZIONE](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/224/548/1223548224.0.m.0.jpg)
LE COLONIE UNITE DELL'AMERICA SETTENTR[IONA]LE. DI NUOVO PROJEZIONE
by [ATLAS] ZATTA, Antonio
Venice: Antonio Zatta, 1778. First Edition. Softcover. Some minor worming to inner marginal folds of maps, occasional spotting. Complete with vibrant coloring. Close to Fine. Oblong folio (16 1/4" x 12") bound in contemporary limp decorated paper covers. Containing 15 double-page engraved maps (including the double-page title), each beautifully hand-colored, depicting Bermuda; the east coast of North America... Read More
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SELECTED WRITINGS OF SYDNEY SMITH
by [AUDEN, W. H.]
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. hardcover. Very Good in Good dustwrapper with some edgewear and tears. Bloomfield B61. Edited and with an introduction by W. H. Auden of this collection of letters and essays by Smith (1771-1845), "the most famous wit of his generation." Owner signature on front endpaper.
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CITY WITHOUT WALLS
by AUDEN, W. H
London: Faber & Faber, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a price-clipped Near Fine dustwrapper with a few small stains to the rear cover. First English Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A63b: 5000 copies printed.
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CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS
by AUDEN, W. H
New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head. Preceded by the English edition. SIGNED by the author below his crossed-out name on the title page.
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED (ALS)
by AUDEN, W. H
New York, 21 May 1947. Letter. Creases from folding, otherwise Near Fine. Scarce AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED by the poet to a Mr. Roberts about his first book. In part: "Thank you for your letter. Unfortunately, I can help you very little myself. There was a little privately printed (on a hand-press by Stephen Spender) book of my poems... Read More
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A GOBBLE POEM SNATCHED FROM THE NOTEBOOKS OF W. H. AUDEN & NOW BELIEVED TO BE IN THE MORGAN LIBRARY
by AUDEN, W. H
London: Fuck Books Unlimited, 1967. First Edition. wraps. Slight rust marks from staples. About Fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson Appendix II. Stated First English Printing of this blatantly homoerotic poem but actually the second printing. Stapled light violet wraps lettered in green. Quarto (7-7/16" x 10"). Illustrated with a caricature of a naked man on the title page. Limitation... Read More
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GAZETTE OF THE GROLIER CLUB: "Address on Henry James"
by (AUDEN, W. H.)
[New York]: Grolier Club, Feb. 1947. First Edition. Stapled wraps. Near Fine. Stapled wraps. An 18-page essay by Auden on Henry James. Also includes an essay by Clifton Fadiman as well as a catalogue of the Henry James exhibition at the Grolier Club. Bloomfield & Mendelson C312.
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THE ORATORS. AN ENGLISH STUDY
by AUDEN, W. H
New York: Random House, (1967). First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Originally published by Faber & Faber in 1932, this edition is revised with a new foreword. This copy is SIGNED by the poet on the title page with an ink stroke through his printed name.
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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... 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. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with mild wear to spine tips and corners and a dampstain at the base of the spine mostly visible on a small part of the rear panel. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner... 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... 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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![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.m.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... 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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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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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 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... Read More
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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
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... Read More
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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.... Read More
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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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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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