THE KENTUCKY TRACE.
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1974. First edition. A novel of the American revolution. Fine in fine dust jacket. Item #38143 More
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MY LIFE AS A MATADOR: The Autobiography of Carlos Arruza.
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
THE LETTERS OF LORD AND LADY WOLSELEY: 1870-1911.
New York/London: Doubleday, Page/William Heinemann, 1922. First edition. The Doubleday, Page issue, with Doubleday on spine. Good to very good with minor wear on corners and spine ends and spine shaken, lacking dust jacket. Item #50461 More
FIFTY YEARS OF AMERICAN POETRY: A Tribute to Marie Bullock.
(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
SELECTED POEMS.
London: Jonathan Cape, (1967). First edition. Second state with "Now reprinted by permission of Wesleyan University Press. c[opyright] 1959, 1962, 1957, and 1960 (respectively) by John Ashbery" pasted onto copyright page. According to the printer, there were 1000 copies total: 250 of the first state, 250 of the second state..... Item #35556 More
SOME TREES.
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
A WAVE: Poems.
New York: The Viking Press, (1984). First edition. INSCRIBED by prize-winning poet Ashbery to Pulitzer Prize winner and Poet Laureate Anthony Hecht and wife on title page, "for Tony and Helen with love, John Ashbery / May 23,1984." Spots of excess ink to fore-edges of last several leaves (appears to..... Item #53732 More
THE LITTLE FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS.
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
THE LIVELY YEARS: 1920-1973
New York: Association Press, (1973). First edition. Brooks on 82 plays from the period with Hirschfeld's drawings. Fine in lightly soiled, very good dust jacket with rubbing along the edges and spine ends but still an attractive copy with no chips or tears. Item #51198 More
APG 162.1 (2004)
AtwoodM.pdf. Item #22738 More
A NOTABLE COLLECTION OF FIRST EDITIONS, COSTUME AND COLORED PLATE BOOK,ETC
New York: American Art Association. 1922. Also" Manuscripts and Association Items of Superlative interest." Sold January 26th and 27th 1922. Also finely bound sets, a unique Kipling items collected by Captain E. W. Martindell. Prices in margins. Printed paperwraps with spine a little darkened and a few closed tears otherwise..... Item #54538 More
VAN GOGH: A Self-Portrait.
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
THE DANCE OF DEATH.
(London): Faber & Faber, (1933). First edition. One of only 1200 copies in the first printing. Green paper-covered boards stamped in black on front and spine. Near fine with few inconspicuous nicks to paper covering; in near fine dust jacket with clean tear to spine internally repaired with tape. A...... Item #35592 More
THE AGE OF ANXIETY.
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
APG 180.0 (2007)
AudenW.pdf. Item #43904 More
A CERTAIN WORLD: A Commonplace Book.
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
COMPLETE WORKS OF AUDEN - PLAYS.
(Princeton): Princeton University Press, (1988). First edition. Fine in dust jacket. Item #54520 More
EPISTLE TO A GODSON: and Other Poems.
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
THE MAGIC FLUTE An Opera in Two Acts.
New York: Random House, (1956). First edition. "English version after the Libretto of Schikaneder and Giesecke," by Auden and Chester Kallman. Translation in verse for the 1956 television production celebrating the two-hundredth anniversary of Mozart's birth. Fine in near fine dust jacket with back panel very lightly soiled and a...... Item #25169 More
MOUNTAINS.
London: Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition. Ariel Poem illustrated by Edward Bawden. Fine in yellow, printed paperwraps and publisher's salmon-colored, printed envelope. Item #49805 More
SUE (Sycamore Broadsheet 23).
(Oxford: Sycamore Press, 1977). First edition and first appearance of this poem presumed to be part of his 1937 cycle of poems that were "cauthionary case-histories notable for their rough metre, black humour and deliberate malice." 13 x 8" sheet folded twice to make 6 pages, including covers. Fine. Item #55131 More
APG 208.0 (2007)
AustenJ.pdf. Item #42853 More
PRIDE AND PREJUDICE.
Isabel Bishop. New York: Dutton, (1976). Illustrated by Isabel Bishop, first edition thus; with a biographical note and afterword by the artist. Magazine and newspaper clippings laid in at rear. An attractive gift edition. Fine in fine slipcase. Item #55150 More