Lot 386
Auden, W.H.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
The orators, an English study. London: Faber & Faber, 1932. First edition, 8vo, black cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped but slightly chipped and darkened along spine; [Idem] Poems 1928. Privately printed (facsimile edition for sale at the Ilkley Literature Festival), 1928 (1973). 16mo, red paper covers with green slip case; [Idem] Journey to a war. London: Faber & Faber, 1939. First edition, 8vo, frontispiece in red and black, metallic grey covers, dustwrapper not price-clipped but with some chipping and soiling, top part of dustwrapper spine lacking; [Idem] Letter from Iceland. London: Faber and Faber, 1937. First edition, 8vo, 59 photographs and diagrams folding map, original green cloth, spine a little faded, dustwrapper not price-clipped but slightly soiled and creased; [Idem] The dance of death. Faber & Faber, 1933. First edition, 8vo, bookplate of Naomi Mitchison to front free-endpaper, original green boards, slightly chipped and soiled, lacks dustwrapper; [Idem] The dance of death. London: Faber & Faber, 1933. Second impression, 8vo, original black cloth, spine slightly faded, purple dustwrapper not price-clipped but with some fading and a little chipping; [Idem] The enchafèd flood... London: Faber & Faber, 1951. First edition, 8vo, blue cloth, a little internal spotting and a couple of ink blotches, very slight fading to spine and edges of boards, dustwrapper not price-clipped but with some fading, foxing and a little chipping; [Idem] About the house. London: Faber & Faber, 1966. 8vo, original blue cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped; [Idem] On the frontier. London: Faber & Faber, 1938. First edition, 8vo, original red cloth, some slight spotting to endpapers, covers very slightly soiled, dustwrapper not price-clipped but a little darkened and chipped; [Idem] The shield of Achilles. London: Faber & Faber, 1955. First British edition, 8vo, original purple cloth, dustwrapper not price-clipped but very slightly faded; and 17 others (27)