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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.
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.
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).
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): 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: Charles Scribner's Sons, (1983). First Edition. Hardcover. 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.
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.....
(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.....
(Weston, CT): Living Hand, (1974). First Edition. wraps. 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.
[New York]: Siamese Banana Press, [1972]. First Edition. Wraps. 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.....
London: Faber and Faber, (1957). First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the endpaper: "for Bill Meredith/Summer 1959/George Barker."
Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1943. First Edition. Softcover. INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the verso of the half-title page: "To Bill Meredith/at Sugar Loaf -- no, Bread Loaf/August 1959 from/George Barker."
Paris: Limited Editions Club, 1940. Auguste Rodin and Jacob Epstein. Hardcover. Two volumes, one in the original French (7" x 9") bound in light blue wraps with glassine wrapper and the other with English translations by various hands (6-3/4" x 11- 1/2") bound in full burgundy cloth with gilt lettering.....
(Latham, New York): Paris Review, (1989). First Edition. Softcover. Pictorial wraps. Published only in softcover, this is Baxter's third collection of poems, though he is best known now for his wonderful fiction.
Ann Arbor: OtherWind Press, (1987). First Edition. Broadside. Includes 22 broadsides, each by a different Michigan poet, ranging in size from 4-1/2" x 6" to 9" x 12", all with rudimentary illustrations. One of only 25 numbered copies SIGNED by the editors and the designer and with each broadside SIGNED.....
London: Poem of the Month Club, 1973. First Edition. Broadside. An 11" x 15" broadside SIGNED by the poet.
n.p. 13 September 1969. Letter. On personal stationery addressed to a Mr. Watson completely in Berryman's holograph and SIGNED by him at the conclusion. Berryman thanks him for his invitation but says his lecture and seminar schedule forbid him to accept.
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). Ben Shahn. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards and dustwrapper designed by Ben Shahn with his illustrations in the text. SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper. Poet Jerome Mazzaro's copy with his bookplate on the front pastedown.
New York: Farrar Straus Cudahy, (1956). Ben Shahn. First Edition. Hardcover. Pictorial boards. Berryman's early volume of poems about Anne Bradstreet. Illustrated by Ben Shahn with the cover and dustwrapper designed by him.
New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970. First Edition. Hardcover. A stylistic breakthrough book for the poet following his award-winning Dream Song books and including his moving "Eleven Addresses to the Lord." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the poet on the front endpaper "To Marcos/very affectionately/& gratefully for many favours--/Have a......
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, (1977). First Edition. Hardcover. Bidart's second book.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Bishop's first book, of which only 1000 copies were printed. Winner of the Houghton Mifflin Poetry Award. Owner name of Marjorie Bailey neatly penned on the front endpaper, quite likely belonging to the noted professor of English and Dramatic Arts and Literature.....
New York: The Phoenix Book Shop, 1973. First Edition. Wraps. Original string-tied marbled stiff wrappers with a printed paper label on the front cover. Copy #88 of 100 numbered copies (out of a total edition of 126) SIGNED by the author on the colophon page. From the publisher's archives.