Boston: Little, Brown and Co., (1960). First edition of the New Yorker magazine editor and contributor's first book; first appearances of all thirteen of short stories included herein. Dust jacket design by Edward Gorey. Near fine in very good dust jacket with light rubbing to spine and corners, spine ends..... Item #55164 More

(La Quercia, Italy: John Van Sickle and Giulia Battaglia, 1971). First edition. Number 116 of 180 numbered copies. An additional 20 copies were printed on varying colored paper. THIS COPY INSCRIBED TO PRIZE-WINNING POET ANTHONY HECHT, "For Anthony Hecht, with great esteem, this volume that provoked my life-long study of..... Item #54273 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. First edition. Top page edges soiled and light shelf wear, otherwise fine in bright dust jacket with closed edge tear and light wear to spine ends and tips. Item #38199 More

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. A novel of the American revolution. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #38143 More

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1956. First edition. Very good with faint foxing and some wear along the edges, most noticeably at the spine ends. In a very good price-clipped dust jacket with light rubbing and soiling, and small chips at the spine ends and corners. Item #50780 More

(Winston Salem): Palaemon Press, 1984. First edition. The only edition of this set of 22 broadside poems, printed in red and black, with each broadside SIGNED by the poet. Reportedly one of only 50 unnumbered copies. Issued as a tribute to the founder and president of the Academy of American..... Item #53650 More

New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956. First edition of the poet's first regularly published book. In the Yale Series of Younger Poets, with a foreword by W.H. Auden. Award-winning poet Anthony Hecht's copy with his ownership signature on front endpaper. The book is fine in near fine dust jacket with..... Item #53616 More

London: The Medici Society, (1930). First edition thus. Very good with rubbing along the edges and faint offset to the endpapers, but otherwise in excellent condition. Dust jacket is tanned and split along the spine (but repaired with archival tape on verso), with several small closed tears and a chip..... Item #51581 More

(Dickerson: Quill & Brush, 2004). Includes a facsimile of the author's signature; a brief biographical sketch; list of the author's first editions (American and British) current to the date of publication of the guide, with entries for limited and trade editions; number of copies (if available); how to identify the..... Item #22926 More

Greenwich: New York Graphic Society, (1961). First edition. "Letters revealing his life as a painter," selected and with foreword by W.H. Auden. Illustrated with 8 tipped-in color plates of paintings and 24 drawings in black and white. Bright and fine in very good dust jacket with creased tear to top..... Item #54492 More

London: Faber & Faber, (1948). First British edition of his Pulitzer Prize winner. Preceded by the American edition published the previous year, Fine in slightly aged dust jacket with spine just a bit darkened. Nice copy. Only 3,000 copies. Item #43662 More

New York: Viking Press, (1970). First edition. Quotations selected and with commentary by Auden; arranged in alphabetical sequence on topics ranging from "Accedie" to "Writing." Auden described this work as the closest he would ever come to writing an autobiography. It was, he wrote, "a map of my planet." Uncorrected..... Item #49554 More

New York: Random House, (1972). First edition. Two-toned, lime-green boards. The book has lightly sunned spine and edges with two tiny nicks to bottom edges of boards where bruised. Printed dust jacket is barely rubbed along edges. A very good to near fine copy. Item #48398 More