For the Time Being

For The Time Being by W. H. Auden is a wartime publication; it is the First Edition published by Random House in 1944. The contents of the book are: The Sea And The Mirror: Preface, Prospero to Ariel, The Supporting Cast Sotto Voce, Caliban to the Audience, Postscript. For The Time Being: Advent, The Annuncation, The… Read more about this item

1/1/1944. Hardcover w/DJ. New York: Random House, 1944. 1st printing. One Volume contains two of Auden's long poems: ""For the Time Being - A Christmas Oratorio"" and ""The Sea and the Mirror - A Commentary of Shakespeare's The Tempest."" Previous owner has laid in ""Christmas 1958"" poem by Auden. Dust jacket in protective cover; small tears at head and… Read more about this item

New York: Random House, 1944. First Am edition. Hardcover. Very good. Cloth is soiled and sunned heavily worn at the head of the spine. Boards bent. Interior clean and tight. 132 pages.

New York: Random House, 1944. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1944. First American Edition (stated First Printing). Slim octavo; publisher's cloth-backed boards in pink decorative dust jacket, black topstain; [4],132pp. Jacket extremities rather chipped and rather brittle, tiny losses at spine ends, that at foot touching text without loss of meaning, top third of rear panel… Read more about this item

Rear cover some scuffing. End papers front nad rear show Fading along hinge. Text unmarked. Spine on front edge dirty,

Random House, 1944-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 1944 Random House hardcover - 1st edition1st printing - no dust jacket - some staining to cover and closed page edge - some wear to edge of cover - otherwise binding strong contents clean - enjoy

New York: Random House, 1944. Pages clean and bright, foxing on endpapers, boards firm with light shelf wear.. First Edition. Hard. Very Good Minus. 8vo.

Faber and Faber, 1945. Hardcover. Very Good. in x in x in. Faber and Faber 1945, second impression. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price unclipped, in near mint condition.

New York: Random House, 1944. Endpapers darkened from three clippings of newspaper reviews (included). Unclipped dust jacket with short edge tears and small stain on front wrapper.. First Edition. Original Cloth-backed Boards. Very Good/Very Good.

Faber & Faber. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket. 1958. Third Impression. Hardback. Dust jacket stiff but sunned on spine and in disintergrated removable archival film, with slight bumping at either end of spine and a small tear at base of front panel; Grey cloth boards clean and sharp, blue lettering bright and intact; Edges a… Read more about this item

London, Faber, Third impression 1946.. 124pp. 8vo. Original cloth in dustwrapper with small chip to middle of backstrip affecting 'A' in Auden. Name and date on ffe. A very good copy.

Hardback. New. Auden's only explicitly religious long poem, a technical tour de force, and a revelatory window into the poet's personal and intellectual development. This edition includes the text of the poem and a detailed introduction that explains its themes and sets it in its proper contexts.

Faber, London, 1946. Reprint. Hardcover. Good Condition (ex-library)/No Dust Jacket. Size: 8vo 7 3/4 - 9 3/4". 124 pp. Binding firm. Slight foxing front/rear pages, but body of book mostly clean and unfoxed. Previous owner's address in ink. Edges browned. Outer margin of p. 9/10 torn with some loss and tape repair, not infringing upon… Read more about this item

Paperback. Very Good.

NY: 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.

London: Faber and Faber, 1945. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Rust colored cloth with gilt lettering to the spine. 124 pp. This copy is VG. Outside has modest spine end, tip, and bottom edge wear. Gilt is bright. Inside has PO armorial BP on inside front board. Otherwise unmarked, clear, firmly bound… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber, London., 1945. First edition. Octavo. 124 pages. Comprises two long poems, with prose passages, "The Sea and the Mirror" and the title-poem.From the library of the poet Dannie Abse with his ownership signature on the front free endpaper. Under the signature he has added ''from Leo'', this being his elder brother. Abse has made a few… Read more about this item

Faber and Faber, 1953. 2nd impression. Hard covers, dust jacket . V.g./Good. Small tears to corners of jacket.

Princeton University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.