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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 & ISHERWOOD, Christopher : ON THE FRONTIER : A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS. London : Faber & Faber, (1938). First edition. A play in prose and verse – intrigue and conflict between two imaginary neighbouring countries, with pronounced echoes of contemporary politics. £50 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 35677 – or simply click on the button
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 & ISHERWOOD, Christopher : ON THE FRONTIER : A MELODRAMA IN THREE ACTS. London : Faber & Faber, (1938). First edition. A review copy, with the publishers’ slip loosely inserted. A play in prose and verse – intrigue and conflict between two imaginary neighbouring countries, with pronounced echoes of contemporary politics. £125 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 38434 – or simply click on the button
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : ANOTHER TIME : POEMS. London : Faber & Faber, (1940). First British edition : [one of 2,000 copies]. One of the finest and most celebrated collections of poetry of the twentieth century, including the first appearance in book form of “Lay your sleeping head, my love”, “Musée des Beaux Arts”, “Spain 1937”, “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”, “September 1, 1939”, “Funeral Blues”, etc. “Certainly his best collection of poems ... Auden was for many of us the last poet we learnt by heart” (Cyril Connolly). SOLD |
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : MOUNTAINS. London : Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition. A poem in the New Series of the Ariel Poems. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 41396 – or simply click on the button
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : THE CAVE OF MAKING. Darmstadt : J. G. Bläschke Verlag, (1965). First edition : [one of 1,500 copies]. Two Auden poems – including one in memory of Louis MacNeice. A parallel English/German text edition, with the German translations by Dieter Leisegang. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19756 – or simply click on the button
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WALTON, William (Sir William Turner), 1902-1983 & AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : THE TWELVE : WORDS BY W. H. AUDEN. London : Oxford University Press, (1966). First edition. The sheet music for Walton’s “Anthem for the Feast of Any Apostle”, first performed at Oxford in 1965, together with Auden’s words. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19851 – or simply click on the button
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : CITY WITHOUT WALLS AND OTHER POEMS. London : Faber & Faber, (1969). First edition. A late collection of thirty-six poems, etc., including “Bird Language”, “The Song of the Devil”, the “Eight Songs from Mother Courage” sequence, etc. “A major poet wonderfully articulate at his slippered unease” (Keith Brace, Birmingham Daily Post, 4th October 1969). £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 45557 – or simply click on the button
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MENDELSON, Edward, 1946- : EARLY AUDEN. London : Faber & Faber, (1983). First British edition. A dedication copy, with the publishers’ compliments slip loosely inserted, and from the collection of Barry and Valerie Bloomfield, the dedicatees. Professor Mendelson had collaborated with Barry Bloomfield on the Auden bibliography. A history and interpretation of the work to 1939. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29574 – or simply click on the button
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