The Collected Poetry of W. H. Auden by W. H. Auden - 1945

Random House, 1945. Hardcover. Good Condition/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: . 466 pages, 11th printing. Light wear; pages tanned; name inside; a good solid book. No jacket. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Poetry; Inventory No: 201894. .

NY, Random House, 1945. 'Fourth Printing'. Hard Cover. xiv, 466 p. ”Wartime book manufactured under emergency conditions…”; cf. Bloomfield & Mendelson A 27. Auden lived in the U.S. during WW II. This copy has student annotations in ink & pencil. Stock#30428. Very Good except for markings/ no dj.

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.

Random House, 1945. With former owner's bookplate to opening inside boards, missing the opening flyleaf. Otherwise an excellent reading copy boards

Fifth Printing. 1945. Hardcover, very good, light. grey cloth boards, front and back. Slightly worn at spine edge and corners. Owner's inscription on inside front page, dated July 31, 1946. Tight binding,sharp, clean pages, no tears or folded pages. No markings.Well-preserved copy. 466 pages. (Photo upon request.)

New York: Random House. Nearly fine copy. 1945. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 466 pp. .

Random House, 1945. First printing. Interior is excellent. very good cover

NY: Random House, 1945. 1st . Hardcover. Very Good/None. Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on brown square on spine. 466 pages. Of this collected verse, Auden writes that the poems here fall into two categories: pieces he has "nothing against except their lack of importance; these must inevitably form the bulk of any collection since, were he to limit it to the [other] class alone, to those poems for which he is honestly grateful, his volume would be too depressingly slim". No dust jacket, clean, bright copy. Record # 383319

U.S.A.: Random House, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Book is in Very Good condition containing light wear. Binding is tight and pages are clean. Dust jacket is in Good condition containing moderate wear, small tears, chips and rubbing present. Pictures are available upon request.

New York: Random House, 1945. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Red cloth, gilt tiles on black field. 7th ptg. Mild tanning and foxing to text block edges, otherwise as issued. Dust jacket shows small chip at head of spine panel and ragged 1" x 1" hole in lower rear panel, short tear at head of rear joint, typical tanning to spine panel and flap folds, now in mylar. xiv,466 pp..