Search Results: Auden from Berthoff Books

Random House, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 85 pages. First printing. Two sections: Thanksgiving for a Habitat; In and Out. 8vo, brown cloth with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, faded teal topstain, foxing to edges and end papers, tan stains to the latter, light foxing spots on many pages, bookstore sticker attached to ffep, in worn, unclipped DJ with chip to top of front panel, spine age-browned, rubbed along spine, light soil and faint foxing inside and out. Pages unmarked. Clipping of review of this book by G.S. Fraser in the NYT Book Review is laid in, along with clipping of Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby".

British Museum, 1974. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 48 unnumbered pages, 88 reproductions of lithographs inspired by Auden poems. Introduction and text by Moore. Frontispiece photos of poet and artist. 8-1/4" square museum catalogue, scant shelf wear (bump along bottom edge of back cover), light smudges to wraps, pages unmarked.

Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, 1981. Soft cover. Very Good. THIS BOOK IS IN ITALIAN. 267 pagine, a cura di Aurora Ciliberti, Introduzione di Marisa Bulgheroni. Italian translation of Auden's collection City without Walls and Other Poems. Trade paperback, light wear at crown, faint foxing-type marks to wraps, binding tight, pages unmarked.

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 466 pages. Fourth printing. (Main image shows title page, second image - exterior.) The collection has sections "Poems" and "Songs and Other Musical Pieces", between them the prose poem "Letter to a Wound". 8vo, blue cloth much rubbed and worn at extremities including 1" tear along backstrip at crown, lettering entirely gone from black inset on spine, rough-cut fore-edge, hinges cracked, foxing to end papers, smudges on a few pages. Date November 1945 and name of former owner (later Prof.) Warner Berthoff on ffep, his underscoring and notes on ffep and approximately 80 pages.

Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961. Soft cover. Very Good. 234 pages, with bibliography, biographical note and notes on the text by the translator. Introduction by W.H. Auden. Harvest Book HB108. Trade paperback, crease to front cover at bottom corner, reading crease, light shelf ear, light smudges and foxing to wraps and top edge. Pages unmarked.

Viking Press, 1981. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 407 pages, with index, reference notes. Discusses Auden's work up until 1939, when he moved to the USA. 8vo, brown cloth with gilt lettering on spine, tan flecked end papers, light wear to heel, sunned at crown, foxing to edges and some spots on a few pages, boards slightly bowed, in unclipped DJ with light shelf wear and curling. Underscoring and/or marginalia in pencil by former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff on approximately 70 pages.

Faber & Faber, 1986. Soft cover. Very Good. 469 pages, with index of titles and first lines, plus 23-page preface by the editor. First paperback edition. Frontispiece photo of Auden. Trade paperback, reading crease, scant shelf wear, foxing to top edge, end papers and page margins age-toned. Pages unmarked.

Faber and Faber, 1933. 2nd Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 89 pages. Second edition of Auden's second (and first commercially published) collection under the simple title "Poems"; note by Auden states that some poems printed in the first edition (1930) were omitted in this one and other pre-1931 poems substituted. Includes drama in verse Paid on Both Sides: A Charade. 8vo, gray cloth brown with age and soil, blue lettering on backstrip which is broken in pieces and reglued with 2" loss from the top including the first four letters of the title ("POEM"); rough-cut edges, corners bumped, foxing to end papers, paper clip stain to front end papers. Pages unmarked.

The Ecco Press, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 101 pages plus 10-page intro. First Ecco Press paperback edition. Published posthumously, a collection of reflections and aphorisms written in 1939 - "an essential work for understanding the evolution of Auden's life and writing" (back cover). Introduction by Edward Mendelson. Mass-market-sized paperback with matte wraps, lightly soiled including by sticker remnants at bottom of back cover, corners sharp, faint foxing to edges, pages unmarked.

Faber and Faber, 1952. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 80 pages. Seventh impression of collection first published 1950. 12mo, cream boards with light foxing, red letters on front and spine, wear to board edges especially at crown and heel, light tan discoloration to end papers, in clipped DJ with spine sunned with some water-stain spots, sticker remnant on front panel, chips to spine and especially along top. Name of former owner written on ffep along with pencil price, five small pencil marks in ToC, other pages unmarked.