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“certainly his best collection of poems” –Cyril Connolly

 
W.H. Auden: first edition of Another Time

AUDEN, W.H. 

Another Time. Poems.

FIRST EDITION, an exceptionally fine copy, of Auden’s most celebrated collection of poetry. Includes the Auden classics “Musée des Beaux Arts”, “In Memory of W.B. Yeats”, “September 1, 1939”, “Funeral Blues”, and many others.

New York: Random House, 1940. Octavo, original orange cloth, original dust jacket. A hint of toning to spine, slight browning to endpapers. Note: this first edition (by Random House) preceded the London Faber & Faber printing by over four months. Cyril Connolly, The Modern Movement, #90. An outstanding copy, extremely rare with dust jacket in such fine condition. $2800.

 

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