THE AGE OF ANXIETY
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b: 3000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the previous year which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29b: 3000 copies printed, preceded by the American edition published the previous year which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize.
wraps. 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.....
New York: Random House, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. Preceded by the English edition. SIGNED by the author below his crossed-out name on the title page.
New York: Random House, (1941). First Edition. Softcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A24a: 2000 copies printed, precedes the English edition. This copy is likely an Advance Review Copy and consists of loose signatures, never bound. In pencil on the title page is written "Aldington," this likely being Richard Aldington's copy though.....
London: Fuck Books Unlimited, 1967. First Edition. wraps. 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.....
New York: Random House, (1967). First American Edition. Hardcover. 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.
London: Faber & Faber, (1930). First Edition. Stiff wraps. Stiff wraps with printed blue dustwrapper. Auden's first regularly published book after the very scarce 1928 POEMS privately printed by Stephen Spender. Bloomfield A2: 1000 copies.
(Northampton, MA): Apiary Press, 1966. M. W. Brower. First Edition. Softcover. 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.
(Oxford): (Sycamore Press), (1977). First Edition. wraps. Single three-folded sheet. Sycamore Broadsheet 23. A previously unpublished ninety-two line ballad.
Birmingham: 14 September 1938. Letter. 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.....
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1994). First Edition. Hardcover. 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).
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.....
[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.
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): 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): 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.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1954). Edward Bawden. First Edition. wraps. Bloomfield and Mendelson A34. Stitched yellow wraps, 5 pages, illustrated with a color frontispiece and two black-and-white drawings by Edward Bawden.