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Auden, W.H.. New Year Letter. Faber & Faber, 1941.
Price: US$9.49 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,450grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
W H.Auden. New Year Letter. Faber and Faber, 1941.
Price: US$20.33 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1941. First Published. 188 pages. No dust jacket. Grey cloth. Binding remains firm. Pages have light tanning and foxing throughout. Previous owner's inscriptions and pencil marking to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Light tanning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Splits to spine ends causing cloth to be frayed. Wear marks overall.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
Price: US$28.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first British printing. No jacket. Grey boards with red lettering to spine are good with a few small marks, patchy browning (including to spine), little pushing/bumping to corners, a few bumps/rubs to edges and a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Top of pages slightly dusty with the odd small mark. End-papers tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Previous owner's name and date in pen to front end-paper. Odd light crease to a few pages. Pages bit tanned. Occasional small mark/spot of foxing to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.
Seller: PW Books, Andover, HANTS, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H.. New Year Letter. Faber and Faber Ltd, London, 1941.
Price: US$31.39 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hard cover, no jacket, in acceptable condition. Heavy shelf and handling wear, includiing notable watermark to rear pastedown and endpaper with hingebreak at same point. Boards show blemishes, are dulled and tanned, with residual evidence of watermark to the exterior. Wear to corners and edges. Pageblock tanned, leading into pastedowns and endpapers. Within, occasional gutterbreak noted, but pages are secure, and content is clean and bright. CN
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
AUDEN, W.H.:. New Year Letter. London Faber and Faber, 1941.
Price: US$32.02 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 1st impression. Hardback. Size 9 x 5.5 inches Green covers with red titles to spine. Name & date 1941 to front pastedown. No inscriptions. 188 pages. No dustwrapper. Fine tight-bound volume. Poetry.
Seller: Tom Coleman, Dingwall, ROSS, United Kingdom
W. H. Auden. NEW YEAR LETTER. Faber and Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, a touch toned. Corners and spine ends bumped, minor wear. Binding tight. Gift message on 2nd blank, text unmarked. Poet. Stax.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Auden,W.H.. New Year Letter. Faber & Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$39.70 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Previous Owners Insc.ffep.
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
Auden, W.H.. New Year Letter. Faber & Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$51.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 188. Original cloth. A very nice copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H.. New Year Letter. Faber & Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover 1st Impression in red-stamped gray cloth, no markings, NOT ex-lib, minor shelf/edge wear, few signs of age or use, no foxing, a bright tight excellent copy of the First Edition, lacking the scarce dust wrapper; 8vo; 188pp
Seller: Nighttown Books, South Pasadena, CA, U.S.A.
Auden W.H.. NEW YEAR LETTER. Faber and Faber, 1941.
Price: US$64.03 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex-library book, usual markings. Hardback with dust cover. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H.. New Year Letter.. London; Faber and Faber, 1941., 1941.
Price: US$83.26 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. 188. Publishers' pale grey cloth with red titles to spine in unclipped printed red dust-jacket. Head of spine and top of lower board stained, which also affects top edge of later leaves. Contents otherwise clean, with no annotation or inscriptions. Jacket a little soiled particularly to spine and lower fold, with small loss (approx 2.5 cm) at head of spine, and a few nicks & creases. A good copy in like jacket. Auden's philosophical poem with a series of notes and quotations, published as "The Double Man" in the USA just two months earlier in the same year. Scarce in the fragile jacket.
Seller: Keel Row Bookshop Ltd - ABA, ILAB & PBFA, Whitley Bay, United Kingdom
W. H. Auden. New Year Letter. Faber and Faber, 1941.
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very good clean copy in a good jacket. NOT price clipped, with some loss to top of spine.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
AUDEN, W.H. New Year Letter. Faber, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$140.90 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine grey cloth, very clean pages, small fox mark on lower edge of fep, in a very good dustjacket, not price-clipped, slightly browned spine, some repairs to the extremities. A long philosophical poem is followed by Auden's own notes on it, then by twenty of his sonnets ('The Quest') and an Epilogue. A scarce title in its jacket.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H.. New Year Letter. Faber & Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$143.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp 188. Original cloth. The unclipped d/w shows some edge-wear and small losses. A decent copy.
Seller: Leakey's Bookshop Ltd., Inverness, United Kingdom
W.H. Auden. New Year Letter. Faber & Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition 1st issue of this famous early book of Auden, in the original red gilt cloth in a good to fair dj the other condition notes are that this copy is signed by Thomas Buss of Harvard at 527 Copley circa 1941, and the dj is chipped twice, but not price clipped. important War poetry.
Seller: Hirschfeld Galleries, Saint Louis, MO, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W.H.. New Year Letter. Faber, London, 1941.
Price: US$192.13 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 188. Original grey boards, lettered in red to spine. General age-toning to text block, but a very good copy in a very good example of the fragile dustwrapper, spine browned, some chipping with loss to head of spine (not affecting text), a couple of small chips and closed tears to top edge. First UK edition. First published two months earlier in the US under the title The Double Man. A little loss to the notoriously fragile dustwrapper, printed on thin wartime paper, but a respectable copy. Bloomfield and Mendelson A-24b
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
AUDEN, W.H.. New Year Letter.. London: Faber & Faber (1941)., 1941.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.