AUDEN, W. H.; SHAPIRO, Karl; ARNHEIM, Rudolf; STAUFFER, Donald

Poets at Work

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. Fine in Near Fine, bright dustwrapper with minor edgewear .

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Book number: 010784

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Literary Criticism, Karl Shapiro, W. H. Auden, Modern Firsts Modern Poetry 20th Century British Literature W. H. Auden 20th Century American Literature

AUDEN, W. H

Portraits. Poems

(Northampton, MA), Apiary Press, 1966. 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. Ill.: M. W. Brower. Near Fine .

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Book number: 020807

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Illustrated Books, Wood Engravings, Modern Firsts, Modern Poetry, W. H. Auden, Limited, E. M. Forster, Matthew Arnold, Herman Melville, Edward Lear M. W. Brower Modern First Editions Literature: English Illustrated Books Modern Poe

AUDEN, W. H

Selected Poems

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. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 010807

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

(AUDEN, W. H.)

Sermon by an Armament Manufacturer" in Life and Letters

(London), (Life & Letters), May 1934. First Edition. wraps. Printed wraps. Bloomfield & Mendelson C55. First appearance of this 4-page article which was included in Auden and Christopher Isherwood's 1935 play THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN. Covers soiled, lending library sticker on front cover. Very Good .

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Book number: 010855

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

AUDEN, W. H

Sue

(Oxford), (Sycamore Press), (1977). First Edition. wraps. Single three-folded sheet. Sycamore Broadsheet 23. A previously unpublished ninety-two line ballad. Fine .

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Book number: 010847

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

AUSTER, Paul

Hand to Mouth. A Chronicle of Early Failure

New York, Holt, (1997). First Edition. hardcover. Auster's memoir of his early days of writing along with three of his plays, his baseball novel (originally published as a paperback under the name of Paul Benjamin), and the rules of a baseball game he invented. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 009587

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Keywords: Memoir, Modern Firsts, Baseball Fiction Modern Firsts Autobiography Baseball Fiction Literature: American

AUSTER, Paul

The Invention of Solitude

New York, Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work. Tiniest of nicks at head of spine. Fine .

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Book number: 005898

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Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Essays Biography Literature: American Modern First Editions Nonfiction

AUSTER, Paul

The Invention of Solitude

New York, Sun, 1982. First Edition. Wraps. Pictorial wraps. His first full-length prose work. Very slight wear at spine tips. Near Fine .

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Book number: 006071

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Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Essays Modern Firsts Literature: American Modern First Editions Nonfiction

AUSTER, Paul

Paul Auster's New York

New York, Henry Holt and Company, (1997). First Edition. Hardcover. A thin hardcover chapbook of about 100 pages in pictorial boards. Preface by Luc Sante and photographs of New York scenes by Frieder Blickle, including two that depict the World Trade Center. The final photograph, a two-page spread depicting the city with the towers in the distance and a bird of prey on a cliff in the foreground, is especially striking. Published in a small quantity distributed solely to the trade and not sold to the public, the book consists of selections from Auster's previously published work that deal with New York City. Fine, issued without dustwrapper .

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Book number: 016235

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Keywords: Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions New York City Limited Paul Auster Illustrated Books

AUSTER, Paul

Unearth

(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. Slight sunning to spine extending to cover. Near Fine .

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Book number: 001292

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Limited, Modern Firsts, First Book, First Books, Modern Poetry Modern Poetry Modern First Editions First Book Literature: American

AUSTER, Paul (Translator)

The Uninhabited: Selected Poems of Andre Du Bouchet

(New York), Living Hand 7, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed wraps. With a three-page introduction by Auster. One of 500 numbered copies. Fine .

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Book number: 007242

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Keywords: Modern Poetry, Modern Firsts, Modern First Editions, Limited Modern First Editions Limited Paul Auster Literature: American

AUSTER, Paul

Wall Writing

(Berkeley), The Figures, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. Printed blue wraps. One of 474 copies printed of this volume of poetry, Auster's second original work. Fine .

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Book number: 000614

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Poetry Modern Firsts Limited Paul Auster Literature: American

AUSTER, Paul

Wall Writing

(Berkeley), The Figures, (1976). First Edition. Printed wraps. One of 474 copies printed of this volume of poetry, Auster's second original work. Light soiling to wraps, spine sunned. Near Fine .

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Book number: 007633

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern Poetry Modern Firsts Limited Paul Auster Literature: American

BAKER, Nicholson

The Mezzanine

New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Very thin, light remainder stripe on bottom edge. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 004500

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, First Book, Humor, First Books, Nicholson Baker, Modern Firsts Modern First Editions Humor First Book Literature: American

BAKER, Nicholson

The Mezzanine

New York, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Author's first book. Fine in a Fine dustwrapper .

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Book number: 005063

Catalogue: Modern First Editions

Keywords: Modern First Editions, Modern Firsts, First Book, Humor, Nicholson Baker Modern First Editions Humor First Book Literature: American