New York: Viking Press, 1970. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. 438 pages. In some ways this functions as an autobiography as it is a collection of some of the pieces valued most by Auden who then commented on them. An about near fine copy with some faint foxing in a close to near fine dust jacket that has some very minor wear and light soiling. Item #170684 More
Price: $35.00
New York: Random House, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 144 pages. A collection of four of Auden's T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures. A tight very good plus copy with some minor wear in a about near fine dust jacket with some minor wear. Item #171470 More
Price: $15.00
London: Faber and Faber, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. A posthumous collection of poetry. A fine and tight copy in a very near fine price clipped jacket with a price increase sticker on the front flap. Item #103480 More
Price: $35.00
New York: Random House, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 61 pages. A posthumous collection of poetry. A near fine copy with some very faint foxing in a near fine dust jacket. Item #171283 More
Price: $20.00
London: Faber & Faber, 1956. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 336 pages. Anthology edited by Auden and with an introduction by him as well. Includes selections from Edwin Alrington Robins. Edgar Lee Masters, Stephen Crane, Gertrude Stein, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Ezra Pound, Robinson Jeffers, Marianne Moore, Conrad Aiken, Edna St. Vincent Millay, E.E. Cummings, Louise Bogan, Hart Crane, Richard Eberhardt, Kenneth Rexroth, Robert Penn Warren, Theodore Roethke, and numerous others. A near fine copy with a small vintage bookstore ticket to the bottom of the rear pastedown in an about very good dust jacket with a chip to the top of the front spine and a few edge tears and minor wear. Item #147067 More
Price: $15.00
New York: Antaueus, 1981. First edition. Softcover. A book of aphorisms and reflections from this importan British poet edited by Daniel Halpern. An about very good copy in wrappers with some minor wear. Item #135006 More
Price: $6.50
London: Faber and Faber, 1954. First edition. Softcover. An Ariel Poem by Auden with illustrations by Edward Bawden. A fine copy in string tied wrappers in a very near fine printed envelope. Item #160728 More
Price: $20.00
London: Faber and Faber Limited, 1971. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. A collection of short poems by Auden accompanied by illustrations by Filippo Sanjust. A very near fine copy in a very near fine dust jacket. Item #171082 More
Price: $30.00
London: British Museum, 1974. First edition. Oblong softcover. Published in conjunction with a show that ran April 24 through June 30, 1974. Preface by John Gere. Includes poems by Auden along with numerous black and white illustrations by Moore. A close to near fine copy in wrappers with some slight spotting to the wrappers. Internally a clean copy. Item #169282 More
Price: $15.00
Lexington, VA: Washington & Lee University, 1970. First edition. Softcover. 206 pages. Spring 1970. Twentieth Anniversary issue. Features three plays by Peter Taylor, Joyce Carol Oates story "I Was In Love," and Theodore Roethke's notebook "I Teach Out of Love." Essays by Roy Fuller, Hugh Kenner, Cleanth Brooks and others. Translations of Cavafy by Edmund Keeley and Philip Sherrard, W.H. Auden and Leif Sjoberg's translation of two poems by Gunnar Ekelof and Reynolds Price translations of two versions from the Bible. Also includes poems by Auden, Richard Eberhart, Richard Howard, Maxine Kumin, William Meredith, James Merrill, Lisel Mueller, Howard Nemerov and numerous others. A very good copy in wrappers that are lightly soiled, with some minor wear and Nemorov's name lightly circled on the rear panel. Uncommon. Item #148062 More
Price: $20.00
New York and London: Mitchell-Innes & Nash / Annely Juda Fine Art, 2003. First edition. Hardcover. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 1 through December 20, 2002 at Mitchell-Innes & Nash and then March 5 through April 17, 2003 at Annely Juda Fine Art. Essay by Dave Hickey and with an excerpt from W.H. Auden's "The Age of Anxiety" and from Constantine P. Cavafy's "Waiting for the Barbarians." Includes numerous color illustrations, a biographical survey, and a checklist. A fine copy in cloth boards. No dust jacket as issued. Item #161370 More
Price: $15.00
New York: Avante Garde Media, 1970. First edition. Softcover. March 1970. This issue is titled "Wedded Bliss: A Portfolio of Erotic Lithographs by John Lennon." Some the other articles include: "The Case for Extending the School Year" by Warren Boroson, "Gustav Klimt: Lost and Found," "The Silent Majority" with photographs by Julio Mitchel, "Thalidomide, Cyclamates, and Now ... Caffeine?" by Warner Brown and several others Also includes W.H. Auden's long suppressed "A Day for the Lay." An about very good plus copy in wrappers with some wear to the spine. Item #156838 More
Price: $25.00
Manchester: Critical Quarterly, 1973. First edition. Softcover. 22 pages. Includes 2 poems by Seamus Heaney: "Limbo," and "Gifts of Rain," and additional poems from: Robert Lowell, John Berryman, W.H. Auden, Peter Porter, Peter Scupham, John Montague, , Molly Holden, Stanley Cook, Edwin Morgan, and Donald Davie. A close to near fine copy in stapled wrappers with a tiny bit of wear to the bottom front corner. Item #121857 More
Price: $15.00
Mainz, Germany: B. Schott's Sohne, 1966. First edition. Softcover. 67 pages. An opera based on "The Bacchae" of Euripides by Auden and Kallman with music by Hans Werner Henze. A very good copy in stapled wrappers that are somewhat soiled and with some tanning to the front panel, but an internally clean copy. Item #128215 More
Price: $65.00
London: British Broadcasting Corporation, 1969. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. 144 pages. A collection of MacNeice's plays for radio with an introduction by W.H. Auden. A tight near fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. A clean copy. Item #148326 More
Price: $30.00
New York: Random House, 1969. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. First printing. A selection from this classic work translated from the Icelandic by Paul B. Taylor and W.H. Auden. Introduction and Peter H. Salus and Taylor. Notes by Peter H. Salus. A clean and tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some minor wear and a few small tears and crimping to the top of the rear panel and edge of the spine. Item #170935 More
Price: $50.00
London: Poetry Book Society, 1957. First edition. Softcover. 8 pages. Published for Christmas 1961. Features poems by David Jones, Laurie Lee, W.H. Auden, Frances Cornford, Theodore Roethke, /Anne Ridier, C.A. Trypanis and Ted Hughes. A very fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #169632 More
Price: $15.00
Sarasota, FL: Periplus Press, 1970. First edition. Softcover. Literary journal edited by John Weber. Includes contributions by Tom Clark, John Wieners, W.H. Auden, Diane Wakoski, W.S. Merwin, John Hollander, David Meltzer, Ted Enslin, William Kotzwinkle, James Atlas, Michael McClure, James Tate, and others. A very good plus copy in wrappers that feature an illustration by Kenneth Patchen. Item #154064 More
Price: $20.00
London: Poetry Book Society, 1967. First edition. Softcover. 12 pages. Published for Christmas 1966. Introduction by Eric W. White. Features poems by W.H. Auden, George Barker, Jack Clemo, Harry Fainlight, David Jones, Richrad Murphy, Norman Nicholson, Brian Patten, Tom Pickard, Edgell Rickword, Vernon Watkins, and Sheila Wingfield. A fine copy in stapled wrappers. Item #169641 More
Price: $12.50