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... Read More
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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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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.... Read More
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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,... Read More
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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... 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... Read More
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NORTHANGER ABBEY
by AUSTEN, Jane
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Hardcover. Sunning to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip. Clarke Hutton. Quarto (7-1/2" x 10-3/4") bound ina varicolored, narrow-striped, satin-finish fabric with a black leather spine label stamped in gold. Designed by Richard Ellis and printed at the Garamond Press with an introduction by Sylvia... Read More
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THE ART OF HUNGER
by AUSTER, Paul
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Slight foxing to top bulked text edge. About Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Cloth-backed boards. One of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of this collection of essays and interviews.
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THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
(New York): Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies.
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FRAGMENTS FROM COLD
by AUSTER, Paul
(Brewster, NY): Parenthese, (1977). First Edition. wraps. Fine in a close to Fine dustwrapper, just lightly soiled. Norman Bluhm. Wraps in pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated with drawings by Norman Bluhm. One of 750 copies. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the title page "For Mork & Mindy(?): with love. Paul." A rather scarce early title from... Read More
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HAND TO MOUTH. A CHRONICLE OF EARLY FAILURE
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Advance Reader's Copy in pictorial wraps replicating the dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented. INSCRIBED "For Darlene" and... Read More
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A LITTLE ANTHOLOGY OF SURREALIST POEMS
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
[New York]: Siamese Banana Press , [1972]. First Edition. Wraps. Slight darkening to covers. Near Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11") consisting of mimeographed leaves printed on rectos only and stapled into printed card covers illustrated by George Schneeman. Auster's first book, an anthology of poems translated by him. Poets include Andre Breton, Tristan Tzara, Louis Aragon, Hans Arp,... Read More
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GHOSTS
by AUSTER, Paul
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. The second volume of his New York trilogy. This is copy "D" of only 26 lettered copies SIGNED by the author on the colophon page.
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HAND TO MOUTH. A CHRONICLE OF EARLY FAILURE
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Holt, (1997). First Edition. hardcover. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented.
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THE UNINHABITED: SELECTED POEMS OF ANDRE DU BOUCHET
by AUSTER, Paul (Translator)
(New York): Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Fine. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies. This copy SIGNED by Auster on the title page.
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AUGGIE WREN'S CHRISTMAS STORY
by AUSTER, Paul
(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, as issued. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. Copy #96 of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450 of which 150 were signed), this being one of the even-numbered copies issued in the United States.
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PAUL AUSTER'S NEW YORK
by AUSTER, Paul
New York: Henry Holt and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. Fine, issued without dustwrapper. A thin hardcover chapbook of about 100 pages in pictorial boards. Preface by Luc Sante and photographs of New York scenes by Frieder Blickle, including two that depict the World Trade Center. The final photograph, a two-page spread depicting the city with the towers... Read More
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UNEARTH
by AUSTER, Paul
(Weston, CT): Living Hand, (1974). First Edition. wraps. Slight sunning to spine extending to cover. Near Fine. Printed blue wraps. One of 1000 copies printed of this volume of poetry, the third volume of the publisher's series and Auster's first original work after two translations. Not published in hardcover.
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WALL WRITING
by AUSTER, Paul
(Berkeley): The Figures, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Light soiling to wraps, spine sunned. Near Fine. One of 474 copies printed of this volume of poetry, Auster's second original work.
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