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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).
Demy 8vo (23cm). (126),[ii]pp. Original red cloth, lettered in gilt; very mild tanning of endpapers; a few edge-spots, but a very good, bright and sound copy in the original orange and black dust-jacket – very faintly sunned, a little rubbed, very slightly creased, with a few minuscule nicks, chips and tiny flaws, but overall still in very good state. Bloomfield & Mendelson A22b. Connolly (Modern Movement) 90.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1954). First edition. A poem in the New Series of the Ariel Poems.
Demy 8vo (22cm). [8]pp. Title-page, colour lithograph, and tailpiece by Edward Bawden. Original self-wrappers, printed black on pale yellow; a fine copy in the original pink envelope – itself near fine. Bloomfield & Mendelson A34.

£25

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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.
Foolscap 4to (25cm). (xxiv),(408)pp. Original boards; very good in the dust-jacket – and with some related press-cuttings loosely inserted.

£40

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