[AUDEN, W. H.] HORAN, Robert

A Beginning

New Haven, Yale University Press, 1948. First Edition. hardcover. Bloomfield & Mendelson B36: 1014 copies. Horan's first book, with a 4-page foreword by W. H. Auden. This copy SIGNED by Auden on the front endpaper and quite uncommon thus. Covers foxed with small tear to spine. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with chipping at the spine tips and corners .

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Book number: 021645

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, First Book, First Books, Modern Firsts, 20th Century American Literature Signed Literature: American First Book Modern First Editions

AUDEN, W. H

The Christmas Oratorio [for the Time Being]: Carbon Copy of a Typed Manuscript with Choral Settings

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 an unknown hand. There were two early typescripts for the poem, neither typed by Auden. One was double-spaced and the other single-spaced. This version is the latter which is the second of the two typescripts that Auden arranged to be prepared for Benjamin Britten, who he hoped would set the poem to music. Auden seems to have sent two copies to Britten to be sure that one got there during wartime. One is in the Britten-Pears library; this is the other. An interesting typescript differing from the published poem in a number of respects. Choral parts are assigned to the speeches by voice. In Part 3, "The Temptation of St. Joseph," the text for the chorus differs from the published version. In Part 4, "The Summons," there are added chorus parts. In Part 5, "Visions of the Shepherds," section two has been changed and expanded from the published version. And in Part 9, "Flight Into Egypt," section two as published has been eliminated. Good and possibly unique .

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Book number: 011305

Catalogue: Manuscripts

Keywords: Theater, Manuscript, W. H. Auden, Music, Modern Firsts, Typescripts, Christmas, Modern First Editions, Benjamin Britten Modern First Editions Benjamin Britten Literature: English Christmas

AUDEN, W. H

City without Walls and Other Poems

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. Fine in a very close to Fine dustwrapper with just a touch of wear to the spine head .

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Book number: 017954

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, W. H. Auden Signed Modern First Editions 20th Century British Literature Literature: English

AUDEN, W. H

City without Walls

London, Faber & Faber, (1969). First Edition. Hardcover. First English Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson A63b: 5000 copies printed. Fine in a price-clipped Near Fine dustwrapper with a few small stains to the rear cover .

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Book number: 010808

Catalogue: Modern Poetry

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, W. H. Auden Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Literature: American Poetry

AUDEN, W. H

The Double Man

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 the signature does not match his handwriting. Some browning and chipping, as could be expected, but overall in Very Good condition and quite scarce .

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Book number: 017519

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, W. H. Auden Modern Poetry Literature: English 20th Century British Literature Advance Review Copy

AUDEN, W. H

The Dyer's Hand

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! According to Humphrey Carpenter in W. H. AUDEN: A BIOGRAPHY (p. 69), Auden's "first sexual experience with a woman was when he went to bed with Frau Petzold .. and in the later period of the friendship he seems to have regarded her as a mother- or aunt-figure. Hinges fairly neatly repaired. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 005948

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Literary Criticism, Essays, Association, W. H. Auden, Modern Firsts, Literature: English Modern Poetry Inscribed Association Copy Modern First Editions

(AUDEN, W. H.)

T.S. Eliot So Far" in the Griffin

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. Fine .

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Book number: 010840

Catalogue: Modern Firsts

Keywords: Modern Poetry W. H. Auden T. S. Eliot Literary Criticism

[AUDEN, W. H.] PATCHEN, Kenneth

First Will & Testament

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 now. Among Patchen's accomplishments was the initiation of the poetry-and-jazz movement in the late 1950s. Although Auden never seems to have figured in an important way in Patchen's life, the elder poet did take part in a benefit for Patchen two decades after being presented with this book. A truly important presentation copy. Backstrip darkened, a few nicks in the cloth. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 002946

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: W. H. Auden, Signed, Rare, Modern Firsts, Literature: American, Modern First Editions, Inscribed, Association Copy, Kenneth Patchen, Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Association Copy Modern Poetry Signed

(AUDEN, W. H.)

Gazette of the Grolier Club: "Address on Henry James

[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. Near Fine .

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Book number: 010839

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Literary Criticism, W. H. Auden, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Henry James, Grolier Club Literature: English Modern First Editions Henry James Grolier Club

AUDEN, W. H

A Gobble Poem Snatched from the Notebooks of W.H. Auden & Now Believed to Be in the Morgan Library

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. Limitation somewhere between 250 and 400 copies. Apparently these light violet covers were used on the first copies before being replaced by bright green covers. Slight rust marks from staples. About Fine .

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Book number: 011317

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Gay Literature, Homosexuality, Erotica, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, W. H. Auden, Limited Literature: English Modern First Editions 20th Century British Literature Erotica

AUDEN, W. H [BUCKNELL, Katherine (editor)]

Juvenilia. Poems 1922 - 1928

(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). Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010831

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, W. H. Auden Modern Poetry Literature: English 20th Century British Literature Modern First Editions

[AUDEN, W. H.] LA FARGE, Henry (editor)

Lost Treasures of Europe

(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. Fading to cloth. About Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010955

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Inscribed, Architecture, W. H. Auden, Modern Firsts, 20th Century British Literature, Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Modern Poetry Literature: English Inscribed

[AUDEN, W. H.] PERSE, St.-John

On Poetry

(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 the original French and Auden's English translation. SIGNED by Auden on the title page. Quite uncommon, especially signed. Fine .

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Book number: 007445

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, Modern Firsts, W. H. Auden, Modern Poetry, Modern First Editions, Nobel Prize Signed Modern First Editions Nobel Prize Literature: English

AUDEN, W. H

The Orators. An English Study

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. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 017827

Catalogue: Signed

Keywords: Signed, W. H. Auden Modern Poetry Modern First Editions Modern Firsts Literature: English

AUDEN, W. H [MENDELSON, Edward (editor)]

Plays and Other Dramatic Writings 1928 - 1938 by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood

(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. Fine in Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010832

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Poetry, Chistopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Theater, Drama, Plays Modern First Editions W. H. Auden Theater Plays