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The Spoil of the Flowers.
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Subtotal: $200.00
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$25.00NY: Random House (1969). First US edition. ix + 124 pp w/index of first lines. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with light tanning to spine. -
$25.00NY: Random House (1965). First US edition. 356 pp. Spotting along top edge, else near fine in near fine dust jacket with light edgewear. Six poems. Bloomfield & Mendelson A61b.
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$250.00NY: Random House (1944). First edition. 132 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket with two short closed tears to the top edge of the front panel. Bloomfield & Mendelsohn A26a.
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$20.00London: Faber & Faber (1954). First edition. [4 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. Lacks the printed envelope. An Ariel poem, illustrated by Edward Bawden. Bloomfield & Mendelson A34.
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$250.00London: Faber & Faber (1941). First UK edition. 188 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket with a very shallow chip to crown. Published earlier in the same year in the US as THE DOUBLE MAN. Bloomfield & Mendelsohn A24b. -
$200.00Ilkley: Janus Press 1973. First printing of this facsimile edition. 37 pp. Light bend to first leaf, else fine in printed wrappers. Housed in a near fine printed folder, together with a 4 pp booklet by B.C. Bloomfield, detailing the history of this rare book, Auden’s first. -
$50.00NY: Random House (1947). First edition. 138 pp. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket with some soiling to front and rear panels, a small tear, and a few shallow chips. Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize. Young 136.
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$75.00NY: Random House (1947). First edition. 138 pp. Previous owner’s inked name and date to the front free endpaper, else near fine in very good dust jacket with chipping to crown of spine with a tear, and chips to tips of flap folds. Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize.
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$50.00NY: Random House [1948]. First edition, fourth printing. 138 pp. Very near fine in near fine dust jacket with a small stamp to the front flap and a one inch closed tear.
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$100.00NY: Random House (1962). First edition. 527 pp. Fine in near fine dust jacket with faint tan to spine, light edgewear, and a small stain to front panel. Bloomfield & Mendelson A45.
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$75.00NY: Voyages Press, 1956. First edition, ordinary issue. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and near fine dust jacket. One of 700 (of 750) copies. Seven poems including the title work as “homage to Clio.” Mendelson A36b. Three publication announcements from the press laid in.
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$45.00Washington DC: Guild Press (1970). First printing of this edition, second state. 69 pp. Very near fine in stapled wrappers. Illustrated throughout with explicit b&w photographs. See Bloomfield & Mendelson Appendix II. This second state has the ads on two late pages covered over.
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$250.00NY: Phoenix Book Shop, 1968. Uncorrected proof. Large 4to sheets, stapled as produced. Galley proofs of the first edition, printed on paper different from that of the published book; one of only four sets made. About fine.
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$25.00Princeton: Princeton University Press (1988). First edition. xxxiii + 680 pp w/index. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a vertical crease to the front flap. Edited by Edward Mendelson, a volume in "The Complete Works of W.H. Auden."
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$35.00NY: Random House (1956). First edition. xv + 108 pp. Near fine in near fine dust jacket. Illustrated by Rouben Ter-Arutunian. Auden and Kallman translated the libretto of Mozart’s opera.
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$40.00Mt. Horeb: Perishable Press, 1977. First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in sewn wrappers. One of 150 numbered copies on Bodeleian paper SIGNED by Augustine. Five poems. Hamady 81. -
$450.00Brewster: Parenthèse (1977). First edition. [32 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers and very near fine dust jacket. Cover art and internal drawings by Norman Bluhm. INSCRIBED by Auster to Jack [Shoemaker], his North Point Press publisher, “For Jack: / X-Mas ‘77) / Paul.” Laid in, a 47 word holograph note from Auster, in part presenting this copy. -
$20.00London: Faber & Faber (1998). First edition. 101 pp. Fine in printed wrappers; a trade paperback original.
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$200.00Weston: Living Hand (1974). First edition. [44 pp]. Spine sunned, else near fine in printed wrappers. Auster's first collection of poems, issued as Living Hand 3.
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$75.00Barrytown: Station Hill (1980). First edition. 30 pp. Bend to fore-edge of text block, else very good plus in printed wrappers. Collects “The Death of Sir Walter Raleigh,” “Northern Lights: The Paintings of Jean-Paul Riopelle,” and “Space: A Dance for Reading Aloud.”
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$12.50(np): (np) (1982). First edition. 61 pp. Very good plus in glosssy illustrated wrappers.
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$22.50Solihull: Aquila (1972). First edition. [16 pp]. Touch of rust to staples, else very near fine in illustrated wrappers. Irish-born Austin’s second collection of poems. Aquila Pamphlet Poetry Eight.
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$20.00London: Routledge and Kegan Paul (1960). First edition. 89 pp. Offsetting to endpapers, bump to crown. In all, near fine in very good plus, price-clipped dust jacket with a stray pen mark to rear cover and wear to crown.
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$15.00Merrick: Cross-Cultural Communications, 1982. First edition. 170 pp. Light stain on front cover extending to fore-edge, else near fine in illustrated wrappers. Foreword by X.J. Kennedy. SIGNED by Axelrod on the title page.
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$20.00NY: Grove Press (1982). First edition. 93 pp. Fine in very near fine dust jacket. Printed endorsements by William Stafford and Erica Jong.
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$30.00NY: Grove (1982). First edition. 93 pp. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with a vertical crease to front fold. INSCRIBED by Axinn on the title page, “Wishing you / the best of dreams / Donald Everett Axinn.” Laid in is a promotional sheet from Grove (reprinting an interview with Axinn in the NYTimes) and a printed card from Grove printing the poem “Rachel” that has been annotated by Axinn.
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$25.00Milwaukee: Membrane Press (1973). First edition. [40 pp]. Small stain on rear cover, else very near fine in printed wrappers.
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$25.00(np): Out of Sight (1976). First edition. [24 pp]. Fine in stapled wrappers. Poems by this editor of TALISMAN.
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$12.50Union City: Fault Publications (1977). First edition. [52 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers.
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$20.00Forest Grove: Mr. Cogito Press (1980). First edition. [28 pp]. Near fine in stapled wrappers. Translated from the Maltese by Grazio Falzon with notes on Azzopardi by Oliver Friggieri. Promotional flyer laid in.
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$20.00Beckley: Robert Baber (1976). First edition. 63 pp. Fine in stapled wrappers. Promotional letter laid-in.
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$15.00NY: New Directions (1989). First edition. 126 pp w/glossary. Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers; a trade paperback original.