Author: W H Auden
Title: Another Time
Description: London, Faber and Faber, 1940. First edition. Paperback. A very scarce, first edition copy of W H Auden's poetry anthology. With the vanishingly rare dustwrapper. Collated, complete with the unclipped dustwrapper. A very scarce survival.'Another Time' is a collection of Auden's shorter poems written between 1936 and 1939. They are the best known poems in Auden's career. From the library of Allen and Beryl Freer. The Freers were avid art collectors, and acquired quite the selection over the twentieth century, of works mostly bought from the artists. Allen organised many exhibitions of artists he admired and published several works on art. This collection is divided into three parts 'People and Places', 'Lighter Poems' and 'Occasional Poems&apos.  Well known poems include 'Oxford', 'A E Housman', 'Dover', 'Miss Gee', 'Refugee Blues', 'The Unknown Citizen',  'Musee des Beaux Arts', 'Spain 1937' and 'September 1 1939&apos. A fantastic collection of Auden's best known works. In the publisher's original cloth binding. With unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear to the extremities. Dustwrapper is unclipped. Sunning to the spine of dustwrapper. Chipping to the head and tail of spine. A few light marks to the extremities. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright. Spotting to the first and last few pages. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed/Very Good.

Keywords: Auden Funeral blues Musee des Beaux Arts The Unknown Citizen Funeral blues None


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