The Table Talk of W.H. Auden. Edited by Nicholas Jenkins with an Introduction by Richard Howard

New York: Sea Cliff, 1989. First edition, one of 150 copies in boards (edition of 160). Frontispiece photograph of Auden by George C. Serna. [xv], 119, [7] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Hand bound by Jim Fredrikson, gatherings stitched and unglued, in biscuit boards, with blockprint endpapers by Dean Bornstein, printed spine label. About fine. First edition, one of 150 copies in boards (edition of 160). Frontispiece photograph of Auden by George C. Serna. [xv], 119, [7] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Attractively produced volumes of Auden’s quips and remarks in New York 1946-1948 compiled by Alan Ansen after meeting the poet at Auden’s lectures on Shakespeare at the New School. As Richard Howard notes, “The table like any gossip, is the agreeable (and egregious) extension of what WHA used to call ‘human unsucces’; we are havppy to have it, but we must not hold it against the poems.”
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