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Auden, W.H. et al. On the Frontier. Faber & Faber, 1938.
Price: US$3.21 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. 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
Auden, W.H. et al. On the Frontier. Faber & Faber, 1938.
Price: US$3.21 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H., Isherwood, C.. On the Frontier: A Melodrama in Three Acts. Faber & Faber, 1938.
Price: US$3.56 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. 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
Price: US$6.58 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: generally sound copy, red cloth, inscription on endpaper To Cecil, from Robin. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Glenbower Books, Dublin, Ireland
Auden, W.H., Isherwood, C.. On the Frontier. Faber & Faber, 1938.
Price: US$6.72 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In fair condition, suitable as a study copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$7.11 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: **1st Edition** **HARDBACK** No stamps or inscriptions; clean condition; no dust jacket
Seller: Aardvark Rare Books, Bucknell, SHROP, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.61 + shipping
Description: 1st edition, hardback, 8vo, 123pp, slight foxing, text clean and sound, no inscriptions, red cloth, Very Good / no dustwrapper
Seller: BRIMSTONES, Lewes, United Kingdom
Price: US$9.61 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: Type: Book Pencil notes by reviewer last few pages of endpapers.Darkening and slight split to spine.
Seller: Fireside Bookshop, Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom
Price: US$10.25 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 123pp A couple of pages uncut. Small nick to cloth on spine. No dustwrapper.
Seller: Left On The Shelf (PBFA), Kendal, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H. and Isherwood, C.. On the Frontier. Faber & Faber, 1938.
Price: US$10.57 + 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. Re-bound by library. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:
Seller: Anybook.com, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$14.56 + shipping
Description: Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition. No dustjacket. Red boards. Gilt lettering to Spine. Spine lightly age-toned. 123 pages. The third and final play in the Auden/Isherwood collaboration. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels.
Seller: Adelaide Booksellers, Clarence Gardens, SA, Australia
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ has darkened spine; chips and bits of loss at edges; smudging and darkening on rear. ; 0 pages
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.37 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Dustwrapper, now protected, is frayed and browned, with small loss at top of spine. Clean boards. Inscription on flyleaf, no other markings.
Seller: judith stinton, Dorchester, United Kingdom
Price: US$17.93 + shipping
Description: First Edition. 8vo., red clothbound hardback gilt; 123pp. Previous owner's ink inscriptions to ffep. Light foxing to edges and endpapers, faint tape shadows to both pastedowns, a few handling marks to boards, spine a little darkened, wear and fraying to top. Good overall. No dust jacket. (SHELF 76) ** Pictures available upon request, if not already displayed here.** The shop is open 7 days a week. Over 20,000 books in stock - come and browse. PayPal, credit and most debit cards welcome. Books posted worldwide. For any queries please contact us direct.
Seller: Chaucer Bookshop ABA ILAB, Canterbury, United Kingdom
W. H. Auden. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber, 1938.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd. London, 1938 Used. First impression, slightly edge-worn otherwise no faults. Faber Library no. 39. 128pp G+ Red cloth cover, gilt spine lettering, spine slightly sunned,sl.bumps and shelf wear. Pages clean and unmarked, tanned with age, foxing to endpapers only. No dustjacket. See photos. Please note that depending on destination we may request an additional payment to cover any extra shipping/postage charges. Abe2207
Seller: Amnesty Bookshop - Brighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H and Isherwood, Christopher. On the Frontier. London; Faber;, 1938.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Very good in red boards with an inscription to the front free endpaper. Lacks dustjacket. Note, ABE will suggest that this is a signed copy. This is not the case - the book is NOT signed by the author.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Description: 1st edn 2nd imp. 8vo. Original gilt lettered red cloth (VG), dustwrapper (chipped at extrems, stained and tanned at spine - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 123 (small mark at fore-edge of front endpaper; no inscriptions).
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 123pp, red cloth, gilt lettered, uncut at fore edge. * "His poetic achievement remains the richest, most wide-ranging, ambitious, impressive & influential of any English poet in the 20th Century" (Montefiore on Auden). hardcover , very good
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 123pp, red cloth, gilt lettered, uncut at fore edge. * "His poetic achievement remains the richest, most wide-ranging, ambitious, impressive & influential of any English poet in the 20th Century" (Montefiore on Auden). hardcover , very good
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
Auden, W H. Selected Poems. Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: VG in VG /w (slightly browned edges and spine). Red cloth boards. 5"x7". 128pp. A selection chosen by Auden.
Seller: Osterley Bookshop, Isleworth, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. A nice copy. Clean text, solid binding. Dust Jacket protected by mylar cover. Some heavy toning to spine and light edge wear to dust jacket. Not price-clipped. True first edition.
Seller: Browsers' Bookstore, CBA, Albany, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Impression. A Very Good copy in cherry red cloth, dustwrapper. Small dark spot-stain to lower edge of spinefold. Dustwrapper with toning, soil and chipping 123pp. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Q17409
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Auden, W.H. & Christopher Isherwood. On the Frontier. Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Nice clean copy of this collaborative work in publisher's red linen lettered in gilt. Slight spine lean.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$21.28 + shipping
Description: First edition, octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable co6ndition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Auden,W.H.& Christopher Isherwood. On The Frontier. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$23.16 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A Melodrama in Three Acts.Previous Owners Insc.ffep.Small Booksellers Label inside front cover.
Seller: A Small Bookshop, ELMHURST, VIC, Australia
AUDEN, W.H and ISHERWOOD, Christopher. On the Frontier. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$23.70 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The book is bright and crisp with slight browning, owners signature (small and neat) on fep. The dj ( not clipped) is somewhat worn with fraying to edges. Scans available Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: LONGLAND BOOKS, Totteridge, LDN, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H.. Selected Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brief ink notes on three pages. Dust jacket missing small piece at spine bottom and has several very short tears.
Seller: By Books Alone, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Auden, W. H.. Selected Poems. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$25.56 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red, cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to the spine. Minor wear and ageing only, no inscriptions. Part of the Faber Library series ( No. 39). Weysprings Books is a Member of: the IOBA and PBFA, and subscribes to the Associations' Codes of Ethics.
Seller: Weysprings Books, IOBA, PBFA, HINDHEAD, United Kingdom
AUDEN , W. H. & ISHERWOOK, C.. On the Frontier. Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$25.62 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: with123pp , dust cover slightly frayed o/w v.g.
Seller: K Books Ltd ABA ILAB, York, YORKS, United Kingdom
W. H. Auden. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber, 1938.
Price: US$32.85 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 1938. First Edition. 128 pages. Yellow dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Pages are slightly tanned with minor foxing throughout. Minor dust marks to pastedowns and endpapers. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate shelf-wear with bumping and fraying to corners and rubbing to surface. Notable tanning to spine with noticeable crushing to spine ends. Gilt lettering is slightly darkened. Clipped jacket has visible edge-wear with notable tears, areas of loss and chipping. Prominent tanning, rubbing and marking. Dust marks all over dust jacket. Rear panel and flap are detached from the spine, front panel and flap.
Seller: World of Rare Books, Goring-by-Sea, SXW, United Kingdom
AUDEN W.H.. Selected Poems.. , 1938.
Price: US$33.08 + shipping
Description: London: Faber & Faber 1938. Small 8vo. Orig.cloth. In slightly shelf-soiled and price-clipped dustjacket. 128pp. 1st edition. The Faber Library - No. 39.
Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia
AUDEN, W. H.. SELECTED POEMS.. Faber And Faber,, London,, 1938.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp 128. Original publisherÕs red boards lettered gilt at spine. Endpapers slightly foxed otherwise very good indeed in slightly used and tanned, very good-minus dust jacket, nicked at spine ends and top corners.
Seller: Burwood Books, Wickham Market, United Kingdom
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Description: 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine red cloth, pages and endpapers very clean, original owner's name on fep, in a very near fine dustjacket, a closed tear at head of spine, not price-clipped.
Seller: Shellhouse Books, Quinton, Northants, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H.; Isherwood, Christopher. The Ascent of F6. Faber and Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$44.83 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover; 2nd impression; clipped dust jacket with edgewear, including tear to spine foot and tanning of spine. From the library of George Donnatt and bearing his signature to FEP. Light wear to board edges and mark to spine. Pages are clean and spine is tight. AD
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Price: US$49.33 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a very good, very slightly edge nicked dw. Corners bumped as with age. Minor dust dulling. Overall a tight, bright, clean copy. Mylar sleeved; 123 pages; Description: 120 p. 24 cm. Subjects: Auden--Melodrama. 20th century drama. Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, 123, (1) pp. Contemporary inscription to fly leaf, faint spotting to front endpapers. Cloth, d.w., not price clipped, a little browned with minor loss to the top of the spine.
Seller: Bow Windows Bookshop (ABA, ILAB), Lewes, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H.. Selected Poems. Faber and Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$57.64 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: DJ rubbed and chipped with tearing to head of spine, light general shelfwear, else book good. Size: 12mo
Seller: Bookcase, Carlisle, United Kingdom
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Fine cloth copy in a very good, very slightly edge nicked dw. Corners bumped as with age. Minor dust dulling. Overall a tight, bright, clean copy. Mylar sleeved; 123 pages; Description: 120 p. 24 cm. Subjects: Auden--Melodrama. 20th century drama. Isherwood, Christopher, 1904-1986 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Stephen Spender. Trial of a Judge. Faber & Faber, 1938.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good condition; Very Good condition dust jacket. First edition, second impression. Includes a copy of 'The Aim of the Group Theatre' pamphlet. Spender wrote this play for that company. Tight binding. Crisp, clean pages. 115pp. As the British Library says: 'This pamphlet advertises the Group Theatre, one of the most influential experimental theatre companies in the 1930s. The company was founded in 1932 by Rupert Doone and Robert Medley, and it soon managed to attract a remarkable group of writers and artists. It produced plays by Shakespeare, T S Eliot, W H Auden, Christopher Isherwood, and Stephen Spender, among others, and also organised a range of cultural activities. Artists such as Henry Moore and Duncan Grant designed sets for the productions. The Group Theatre performed the three plays written collaboratively by Auden and Isherwood: The Dog Beneath the Skin (1935), The Ascent of F6 (1936), and On the Frontier (1938). The composer Benjamin Britten began collaborating with the company in 1935, writing incidental music for many of its productions.' Full title: The aim of the Group Theatre : directors: production: Rupert Doone ; literary: Stephen Spender ; music: Benjamin Britten, Brian Easdale ; decor: Robert Medley, John Piper.
Seller: Arundel Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.99 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 123 pp., red cloth with gilt lettering on the spine.
Seller: The Antiquarian Shop, Bend, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Description: 123 pages. 22.5 x 14.5 cm. Bookplate "From The Library of Julian Barnes," a prominent English author in his own right. Book label of Myers Co. Booksellers London. Small owner inscription front free endpaper. Orig. red cloth nicked at backstrip head. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Some age toning and a tear on the joint thus very good in a good only dustwrapper lacking part of the spine, with toning, and chips.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$80.69 + shipping
Description: Very nice copy in somewhat frayed and soiled dust-wrapper
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$96.06 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 123pp. Fore & tail edges untrimmed. End papers a little foxed. Slightly soiled but complete dust jacket has a couple of very short (<1cm) closed tears. Laid in is a very scarce 1937 prospectus for The Group Theatre, that first performed the play, announcing their productions of MacNeice's Out of the Picture, Spender's Death of a Judge & "A New Play (title & details to be announced) by W.H. Auden & Christopher Isherwood". The book was published in October 1938 & on the publisher's imprint it states the Group Theatre's first production was to be at Cambridge on November 14th.
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H.. The Dance of Death. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: | Bookplate (attractive) on front pastedown; former owner's name jotted neatly on flyleaf; a bit foxed with some wear top and bottom edges thus a very good copy in very good dustjacket (mylar-protected) with light general wear and a small chip at head of spine. Auden's third book, a play written for the Group Theatre, published in an edition of just 1200 copies.
Seller: Tony Power, Books, North Vancouver, BC, Canada
Price: US$121.68 + shipping
Description: W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's last collaborative play telling of an outbreak of war. The first impression in its unclipped dust wrapper. One W. H Auden and Christopher Isherwood's plays written in collaboration. The first edition, first impression of this melodrama in three acts telling the story of the outbreak of the war between the fictional European countries of Ostnia and Westland.Written in prose and verse, it is considered the successor to The Ascent of F6. The play was produces in October 1938 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.With the unclipped dust wrapper. In the original publisher's cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only and a minor bumping to the head and tail of the spine and tot he extremities. With a faint hint of a damp marking to the rear board. The dust wrapper is unclipped and smart with some shelf wear and some sunning to the spine and front wrap. The head and tail of the spine of the wrapper are chipped. Internally, firmly bound. The pages are bright and clean. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: Bloomfield & Mendelson A18: 3000 copies printed, preceding the American edition. Touch of foxing to endpapers. Dustwrapper lightly soiled with wear at crown. Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Auden, W.H and Isherwood, Christopher. On the Frontier. London; Faber;, 1938.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Near fine with some spotting to the endpapers in near fine dustjacket.
Seller: timkcbooks (Member of Booksellers Association), Penzance, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H.; Isherwood, Christopher. ON THE FRONTIER. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$132.34 + shipping
Description: A melodrama in three acts. Pp. 124(last blank); fore and bottom edges uncut; price-clipped dust wrapper, slightly silverfished, the backstrip lightly soiled, bookseller's sticker at foot of upper pastedown, the upper free endpaper lightly creased, top edges of leaves a trifle foxed; Faber & Faber, London, 1938. First edition. *With the bookplate (by Perrottet) of Australian author and book collector Marcie Collett (later Muir) on the upper free endpaper. On the Frontier was the third and final play in the Auden-Isherwood collaboration, produced in October 1938 at the Cambridge Arts Theatre, in a production by the Group Theatre. The incidental music for the play was composed by Benjamin Britten, to whom this book is dedicated.
Seller: Kay Craddock - Antiquarian Bookseller, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
Auden, W.H. And Isherwood, Christopher.. ON THE FRONTIER.. FABER & FABER., LONDON, 1938.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Near fine copy in red cloth with gold titles in very good dust jacket. (Previous owner's inscription dated in 1942 on front end paper. Same person has laid-in in a signed note card & Group Theatre subscription form. Light foxing to preliminaries. Shallow chipping at crest of spine on DJ. Which is age toned. ) 3000 copies printed.
Seller: WAVERLEY BOOKS ABAA, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W.H.. Selected Poems. Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$160.11 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp. 128. Original red boards, lettered in silver to spine. Printed dustwrapper. Boards a little rubbed and marked, offsetting to endpapers, small contemporary (1941) ownership signature to ffep., a very good copy in a very good price-clipped dustwrapper, darkened at spine, and with a small unobtrusive stain to front panel (which probably had something to do with the marking of the boards). First edition. One of 4080 copies. No US edition was issued. A selection made by Auden himself, and the earliest Auden collection. Bloomfield & Mendeson A17
Seller: Neil Pearson Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$166.50 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. 123. A very good untrimmed copy in red cloth. dw. (chips to edges of dw., tear in spine, ownership entry on front free-endpaper). First Edition.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada
Auden, W.H.. W.H. Auden : Selected Poems (first printing). Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1938.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Faber and Faber. London. 1938. 128 pages. First edition, first printing. Book is tight. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Red cloth panels are bright; stamped in gilt on spine. Endpapers are bright and clean. Original DJ with 3s 6d net price intact on flap. Minor shallow chipping at foot and crown with minimal sunning to DJ spine area. One of only 4,080 copies of the first printing. All poems in this edition were selected by Auden. This edition was never published outside of the UK. First edition, first printing. VG+/VG
Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W. H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. On the Frontier.. Faber and Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: 123 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition. Very slight browning to endpapers, else a near fine copy in an unchipped jacket with some light browning to the spine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$203.00 + shipping
Description: Auden-Isherwood 1st. ed. 4 page Group Theatre membership form-productions and lectures notice of Eliot,Auden,Forster etc. fine. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$203.00 + shipping
Description: Auden-Isherwood 1st. ed.-4 page Group Theatre membership form-has productions and lectures notice by Eliot-Auden-Forster etc. fine. d.j. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W.H.. Selected Poems.. Faber & Faber, London, 1938.
Price: US$261.79 + shipping
Description: First edition. Bookplate, name on front pastedown o/w a near fine in a d/w with light wear but certainly very good.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
Jones, David. In Parenthesis seinnyessit e gledyf ym penn Mameu. Faber and Faber, 1938.
Price: US$294.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, third impression. The first edition, first impression of David Jones' epic poem of the First World War.Illustrated with a frontispiece, one further plate, and a map, all the work of the author himself. Publisher's light tan real cloth with titles blocked in grey and gilt to spine, tinted top edge, typographical dust-jacket. Binding tight with square corners. Jacket with some light edge-wear chips and tears, rear panel toned with some light pink wash stain to parts of it (see photograph) The dust-wrapper has been clipped and re-priced by the publisher at 12/6. Landmark title, first published in 1937, and described as 'the chanson de gestes of the. Welsh Cockney in the Great War.' Considered one of the best books on the Great War, it won the Hawthorden Prize in 1938. The first edition of David Jones' epic semi-autobiographical about the First World War. W. H. Auden describes it as 'the greatest book about the First World War', while it was seen to be 'a work of genius' by T. S. Eliot.
Seller: Polyanthus Books, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine First UK edition of this three-act melodrama, a play in prose and verse.
Seller: Mystery Pier Books, Inc.,ABAA, ILAB, ABA, West Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W. H. SELECTED POEMS. Faber & Faber (1938), London, 1938.
Price: US$312.50 + shipping
Description: Bloomfield & Mendelson A17: 4080 copies printed; there was no American edition of this title. Selection by Auden himself. Slight rubbing to spine and bottom edges of book; dustwrapper with touch of soiling to spine and two small puncture marks at rear. Near Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$320.22 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Third impression of the true first edition, published in the same format as the first impression in July 1938. The first impression was published in June 1937, with a second impression the following month. With two lithographic illustrations after drawings by the author (one used as the frontispiece), and a map. ***A near fine copy in beige cloth-covered boards, with a gilt-bordered panel on the spine. The boards are clean - just slightly darkened from age and handling. The binding is straight with no reading lean. Page block edges clean, with just some light sporadic foxing to the fore-edge. The top edge is stained grey by the publisher to match the dustwrapper. There are no bumps or creases to the boards, and the corners are sharp. No tears to the cloth and no splitting. Internally also near fine with no inscriptions or annotations, but with an attractive period bookplate "Dorothy Deane her book" on the front pastedown. The paper is clean without any marks or foxing - just some light sporadic foxing to the endpapers. The map and two illustrations are also clean. No creases or tears. ***In a very good printed dustwrapper, which is complete except for having been square price-clipped (please see scans). The head and tail of the spine are slightly creased, but there is no loss and no chips or tears. The back panel is somewhat marked and darkened (being a white background). There is also some darkening to the edges of the inner flaps. ***225mm x150mm. 227 pages including a section of notes at the back of the book. ***'Walter David Jones CH, CBE (1 Nov 1895 - 28 Oct 1974) was a Welsh painter and modernist poet. As a painter he worked mainly in watercolour on portraits and animal, landscape, legendary and religious subjects. He was also a wood-engraver and inscription painter. In 1965, Kenneth Clark took him to be the best living British painter, while both T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden put his poetry among the best written in their century. Jones's work gains form from his Christian faith and Welsh heritage. "In Parenthesis" is an epic poem of the First World War by David Jones first published in England in 1937. Although Jones had been known solely as an engraver and painter prior to its publication, the poem won the Hawthornden Prize and the admiration of writers such as W. B. Yeats and T. S. Eliot. Based on Jones's own experience as an infantryman, "In Parenthesis" narrates the experiences of English Private John Ball in a mixed English-Welsh regiment starting with embarkation from England and ending seven months later with the assault on Mametz Wood during the Battle of the Somme. The work employs a mixture of lyrical verse and prose, is highly allusive, and ranges in tone from formal to Cockney colloquial and military slang. T. S. Eliot called it "a work of genius." W. H. Auden considered it "a masterpiece," "the greatest book about the First World War" that he had read, a work in which Jones did "for the British and the Germans what Homer did for the Greeks and the Trojans" in "a masterpiece" comparable in quality to The Divine Comedy. The novelist and poet Adam Thorpe says it "towers above any other prose or verse memorial of that war (indeed, of any war)". The Jones scholar Thomas Dilworth writes that it is "probably the greatest work of British Modernism written between the wars" and "the greatest work of literature in English on war."' (Wiki) ***A pre-war third impression of the true first edition. With a very well preserved interior and a complete original dustwrapper. Uncommon in early impression in this collectable condition. There wasn't a fourth impression until 1955. A very nicely produced book. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc.
Seller: Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: First British Edition. A Very Fine copy in scarlet linen cloth, in a Fine dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with one tiny abrasion to rear lower flapfold. 123pp. Q15806
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 123p octavo. Uncorrected proof. A fine copy in purple wraps. Spine sunned Very scarce
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Price: US$525.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Flatsigned by Christopher Isherwood on the title page. Printed on fine quality paper. Clean and neat in bright red covers showing little wear. With clear plastic wrapper. First British Edition. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca library.
Seller: Eve's Book Garden, Albany, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: DJ in archival cover chips age toning price clipped. Stated first published.
Seller: J. Mercurio Books, Maps, & Prints IOBA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$736.50 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 123 pages.Signed by Christopher Isherwood on the title-page.A little faint spotting to front endpapers. Very good indeed in very good indeed dustwrapper with some light rubbing to the spine and with one small nick repaired on the reverse.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
ISHERWOOD, Christopher; AUDEN W.H.. On the Frontier.. London Faber and Faber, 1938.
Price: US$907.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, inscribed by the Author; 8vo; publisher's red cloth, dust jacket, slightly nicked and browned, otherwise very good. Inscribed by Isherwood on the front free endpaper: 'For my dear Erika, who crossed the frontier'; with Erika Spender's small name stamp above. She was the wife of Stephen Spender's older brother, Michael. Stephen Spender was reported to have described her as 'my brother's corn cob bride'.
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom