ANDERSON, Sherwood

Winesburg, Ohio

New York (New York), B. W. Huebsch (Collector's Reprints, Inc.), 1919 (1947) [1985]. Facsimile Edition. Hardcover. Faithful facsimile of the first edition. Crease to about first 40 pages; slight foxing to bulked fore-edges of text. Near FIne in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 020810

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Sherwood Anderson, Facsimile Edition, Modern First Editions, Short Stories Facsimile Edition Modern First Editions Literature: American Short Stories

APPEL, Benjamin

With Many Voices. Europe Talks About America

New York, William Morrow and Company, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. A novelist's conversations with people on both sides of the Iron Curtain. Bookseller's ticket on the rear pastedown and on the front pastedown the small Fountain Lawn Library bookplate of coal baron La Fayette Butler, many of whose books were left untouched from the time of their purchase by him until their sale in the summer of 1999. Rather uncommon and certainly timely. Near Fine in a price-clipped, near Very Good dustwrapper .

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Book number: 015208

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Communism Europe Iron Curtain World Politics Nonfiction

ASHBERY, John

Turandot and Other Poems

New York, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, 1953. First Edition. Softcover. Ashbery's first book, a 23-page chapbook in sewn decorated paper wraps, one of only 300 copies printed. Illustrated with four drawings by Jane Freilicher. In this copy two of the plates are duplicated giving a total of six plates. Ill.: Jane Freilicher. Wrappers neatly strengthened internally with professional paper repairs to a few small chips at the top and bottom as well as to the bottom margin of a few pages towards the end. Near Fine example of this scarce book .

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Book number: 019023

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: New York School, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions Jane Freilicher Modern Poetry First Book Limited Literature: American

AUDEN, W. H

The Age of Anxiety

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. Owner name on front endpaper and copious but light pencil notes on rear endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with some darkening and soiling .

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Book number: 000697

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

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

AUDEN, W. H

The Age of Anxiety

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. Fine in a bright, Fine dustwrapper and increasingly uncommon thus .

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Book number: 007960

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

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

AUDEN, W. H

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. Very mild foxing to the endpapers and slight soiling to the spine. Mild sunning to dustwrapper spine and the briefest of wear to the crown. Near Fine in Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010803

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

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

AUDEN, W. H

The Age of Anxiety

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. Owner name on front endpaper. About Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper with mild wear to spine tips and corners and a dampstain at the base of the spine mostly visible on a small part of the rear panel .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 010814

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

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

[AUDEN, W. H.] CALLAN, Edward

Auden: A Carnival of Intellect

New York, Oxford University, 1983. First Edition. Hardcover. Callan traces the development of Auden's art from its beginnings to his death. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010862

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Modern Poetry, Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, Literary Biography Modern First Editions W. H. Auden Literary Biography Literary Criticism

[AUDEN, W. H.] MILLER, Charles

Auden. An American Friendship

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. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010863

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, W. H. Auden, Literary Criticism Modern First Editions W. H. Auden Modern Poetry Memoir

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.)

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 [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

AUDEN, W. H

Poems

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. Two small chips to the top edge. One of the best copies we have seen with no fading of the blue integral dustwrapper. A beautiful copy .

Charles AgventProfessional seller

Book number: 004736

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

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