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Auden (W.H.)

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Description: FIRST EDITION, small mark to margin of p. 58 (carrying through adjacent couple of leaves), pp. 82, 8vo, original quarter blue cloth with grey boards, backstrip and upper board lettered in gilt with a grey-stamped border wrapping around and enclosing the publisher device (also in grey) to lower board, dustjacket in two pieces, good

Publication Details: New York: Random House, 1951

Notes: Inscribed, warmly, by the author on the flyleaf, at time of publication: 'To Wayne, with love from Wystan, Feb 21st, 1951'. The recipient, Wayne D. Cogswell, then presents this copy in 1998 as a token of gratitude - explaining that he knew the author in New York in the 1940s and '50s - his letter accompanied by a concordance between this and the poems' subsequent appearance in Auden's 'Collected Poems' (1976).Auden has made two corrections to the text, to 'Memorial for the City' and 'Not in Baedeker', in the first instance affecting the sense (the latter simply scansion), and subsequently inc...moreInscribed, warmly, by the author on the flyleaf, at time of publication: 'To Wayne, with love from Wystan, Feb 21st, 1951'. The recipient, Wayne D. Cogswell, then presents this copy in 1998 as a token of gratitude - explaining that he knew the author in New York in the 1940s and '50s - his letter accompanied by a concordance between this and the poems' subsequent appearance in Auden's 'Collected Poems' (1976).Auden has made two corrections to the text, to 'Memorial for the City' and 'Not in Baedeker', in the first instance affecting the sense (the latter simply scansion), and subsequently incorporated into later editions. HIDE

Bibliography: (Bloomfield & Mendelson 32a)