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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. £75 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 : ORATIO CREWEIANA MCMLVIII. [Oxford : Oxford University Press], 1958. First edition : [one of 1,500 copies]. The Latin and English texts of Auden’s June 1958 formal oration as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19849 – or simply click on the button
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 : ORATIO CREWEIANA MDCCCCLX. [Oxford : Oxford University Press], 1960. First edition: [one of 1,500 copies]. The Latin and English texts of Auden’s June 1960 formal oration as Professor of Poetry at Oxford. £25 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 19850 – 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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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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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 & ISHERWOOD, Christopher, 1904-1986 : PLAYS AND OTHER DRAMATIC WRITINGS BY W. H. AUDEN : 1928-1938. Princeton : Princeton University Press, (1988). First edition. Plays, documentary filmscripts, cabaret and wireless scripts, etc., with full critical notes and apparatus. The first volume of the Complete Works, edited by Edward Mendelson. A presentation copy, with the editor’s compliments slip loosely inserted. From the collection of the late B. C. Bloomfield, who collaborated with Mendelson on the Auden bibliography. £20 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 40184 – or simply click on the button
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AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 & KALLMAN, Chester, 1921-1975 : LIBRETTI AND OTHER DRAMATIC WRITINGS BY W. H. AUDEN 1939-1973. Princeton : Princeton University Press, (1993). First edition. Libretti, radio plays, film narratives, lyrics, translations, etc., with full critical notes and apparatus. The second volume of the Complete Works, edited by Edward Mendelson. From the collection of the late B. C. Bloomfield, Auden’s bibliographer. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 29589 – or simply click on the button
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MENDELSON, Edward, 1946- : LATER AUDEN. New York : Farrar, Straus & Giroux, (1999). First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to “Barry & Val [Bloomfield] – who let this happen” and signed with forename by the author. (Mendelson had earlier collaborated with Barry Bloomfield on Auden’s bibliography). The highly thought-of biography of Auden’s later life. £40 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 27707 – or simply click on the button
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