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.
New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.
New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield A29: 3500 copies printed, preceding the English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.
New York: Random House, (1947). First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A29: 3500 copies printed, precedes English edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis of Leonard Bernstein's "Symphony, no. 2," this book is one of Auden's finest accomplishments.
New York: 21 May 1947. Letter. 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.....
[1926]. Manuscript. 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. H. AUDEN JUVENILIA edited by Katherine Bucknell, from which much of the information below was acquired.....
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.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. First English Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A63b: 5000 copies printed.
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: Faber & Faber, (1963). First British Edition. Hardcover. 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 copy!.....
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.
London: Faber & Faber, (1938). First Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A17: 4080 copies printed; there was no American edition of this title. Selection by Auden himself. Slight rubbing to spine and bottom edges of book; dustwrapper with touch of soiling to spine and two small puncture marks at rear.....
(Oxford): (Sycamore Press), (1977). First Edition. wraps. Single three-folded sheet. Sycamore Broadsheet 23. A previously unpublished ninety-two line ballad.
London: Faber & Faber, (1974). First Edition. Hardcover. First English Edition. Preceded by the American edition published the same year. Auden's final collection published after his death.
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.....
London: Faber & Faber, (1957). First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
(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).
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
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 British Edition. Hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson A18: 3000 copies printed, preceding the American edition.
[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.