London: Faber & Faber, (1937). Second Edition. Hardcover. SIGNED by both authors on the title page and rather scarce as such. This copy belonged to minor poet Campbell Mitchell-Cotts whose 1937 ownership name is on the front endpaper.
Iowa City: The Windhover Press, 1968. First Edition. Hardcover. Gilt-lettered boards. One of 450 copies printed on Rives Heavy paper. The decorative brackets and frontispiece were adapted by Mary Ellen McFadden from early Icelandic representations of Thor's hammer. The Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1938). First Edition. cloth. First English Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A18: 3000 copies printed, preceding the American edition. Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown.
[New York]: Grolier Club, Feb. 1947. First Edition. Stapled wraps. 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.
(London): (Life & Letters), May 1934. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Bloomfield & Mendelson C55. First appearance of this 4-page article which was included in Auden and Christopher Isherwood's 1935 play THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN.
New York: The Readers' Subscription, 1953. First Edition. Stapled wraps. 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.
Oxford: Oxford University, (1966). First Edition. wraps. 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.
New York: Harcourt Brace, (1948). First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield B35: 2500 copies. Essays on poets at work illustrated with reproductions of typescripts and manuscripts by poets.
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. hardcover. 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.
New York: Oxford University, 1983. First Edition. cloth.
(New York): Pantheon Books, (1946). First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
New York: Scribner, (1983). First Edition. cloth.
New York: New Directions, (1939). First Edition. Hardcover. 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, unlikely as that might seem.....
(New York): Bollingen Series, (1961). First Edition. wraps. 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.....
New York: V. G. Audubon, 1851-1851-1854. First Edition. Hardcover. Second Octavo Edition of the first volume, First Editions of the second and third. Three volumes in modern half black morocco leather with matching corners, retaining the original marbled boards, all edges marbled; 6-3/4" x 10-3/8"; viii, 383, [1] pages; [2].....
New York: V. G. Audubon, (1849)-1856. Early Edition. Hardcover. Early Octavo Edition of the first two volumes, lacking the third volume. Two volumes in publisher's full brown morocco leather elaborately embossed and stamped, the spine with five raised bands, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt; 7" x 10-3/4" with half-title pages.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1964. Fritz Kredel. Hardcover. Octavo (6-3/8" x 9-1/4") bound in full linen buckram with an ivory cameo portrait embossed in the front cover and a leather label stamped in gold on the spine; 446 pages. Introduction by Stella Gibbons. Illustrated by Fritz Kredel with 32.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. 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 Townsend Warner. Illustrated with 12 full-page paintings.....
New York: Limited Editions Club, 1971. Clarke Hutton. Hardcover. 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 Townsend Warner. Illustrated with 12 full-page paintings.....
Boston: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Helen Sewell. Hardcover. Octavo (5-7/8" x 9-1/8") bound in full embossed brown sheepskin leather. Designed and printed by D. B. Updike at The Merrymount Press. Preface by Frank Swinnerton. Illustrated with line drawings by Helen Sewell. Copy #1267 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1992). First Edition. Hardcover. Cloth-backed boards. One of 300 numbered and SIGNED copies of this collection of essays and interviews.
(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
(Birmingham, UK): Delos Press, 1992. First Edition. Hardcover. Thin quarto in quarter buckram and marbled boards. One of 100 numbered copies SIGNED by the author (of a total edition of 450), this being one of the odd-numbered copies issued in England.
(Brewster, NY): Parenthese, (1977). Norman Bluhm. First Edition. wraps. 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 this acclaimed.....
Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, (1986). First Edition. hardcover. 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.
