Auden, W.H.. POEMS. Faber and Faber: London (1930), 1930.
Price: US$230.00 + shipping
Description: 9 x 6", yellow-gray cloth, 89pp, covers heavily rubbed and soiled, rear outer hinge torn, hinges loose, contents used with some spotting on endpapers and foredge, with an incredibly artsy (but indecipherable) ink name of former owner. SWAF. Second Edition (from same year as the first).
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
AUDEN Wystan Hugh.. Poems.. Faber & Faber, 1930.
Price: US$278.43 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Londres, Faber & Faber Limited, 1930. In-8, broché sous couverture rempliée, 79-[1] pages. Édition originale. Exemplaire sur vergé du premier recueil de W.H. Auden, âgé de 23 ans, publié par T.S. Eliot dans sa collection Poetry. Complet de son prospectus sur feuillet volant présentant la collection « Poetry » de Faber & Faber. Ex-dono non identifié (John to Olga) à la mine de plomb au faux-titre. Couverture défraîchie présentant de petites déchirures et des piqûres, mais exemplaire néanmoins convenable de cet excellent recueil. « The voice is nearer / But not clearer / Than first love / Than peace-time occupations » Provenance : vente Sothebys, Londres, 4 avril 1974, lot n°429.
Seller: Librairie Jean-Yves Lacroix, Gouloux, France
Auden, W. H.. Poems [First Edition, first issue]. Faber and Faber, 1930.
Price: US$292.40 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Unclipped price (2s 6d net) to wraps. Joints to cover slightly worn, chip to lower right corner of front panel (7x2mm), small chip (4x2mm) to top edge of rear panel of wrap. The back panel has offsetting from a paper-clip and some light foxing (see photo). The cover has become detached from the page-block, and the fold at the back flap has split at the base without any loss (see photo of entire DW). Some dust-spotting to top edge of pages, resulting in some very occasional spots of foxing near edges. Otherwise pages fine and clean. Untrimmed fore edge. Covers protected by removal archival mylar. Auden's scarce first book, in first edition, first issue.
Seller: Polyanthus Books, London, United Kingdom
Auden, W.H.. Poems.. Faber & Faber, London, 1930.
Price: US$324.89 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION, 4to, pp. 79, [1]. Original cream limp boards, blue dustjacket printed in red and black. Some gatherings uncut. Wrappers somewhat worn and marked. W.H. Auden?s (1907-1973) first published book, in an edition of 1000 copies, with some poems lifted from a pamphlet of the same title printed in 1928 by Stephen Spender (1909-1995).
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907-1973). Poems / by W. H. Auden. London: Faber & Faber, 1930.
Price: US$328.55 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in a poor dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Some minor tape amrks to front-free endpaper. Additional scans available upon request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 79 pages; Physical desc.: 79 p. 21 cm. Subject: Poetry -- W. H. Auden. Notes: Author's first trade book club edition with only 1000 copies printed. 0 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907-1973). Poems / by W. H. Auden. London: Faber & Faber, 1930.
Price: US$364.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in a poor dw, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Some minor tape amrks to front-free endpaper. Additional scans available upon request. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 79 pages; Physical desc.: 79 p. 21 cm. Subject: Poetry -- W. H. Auden. Notes: Author's first trade book club edition with only 1000 copies printed. 0 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Auden, W.H.. POEMS.. Faber & Faber: London., 1930.
Price: US$454.25 + shipping
Description: 8 x 6.25, wraps, 79 pp, text block loose, covers moderately rubbed and darkened, rear outer hinge splitting. FIRST ED OF AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$787.50 + shipping
Description: AUDEN, W. H. Poems. London: Faber & Faber, [1930]. 79 p. Light blue printed wrappers over unprinted card covers. Spine a bit darkened, light rubbing of extremities, but a very good copy. First edition of Auden's first published book, printed in an edition of 1000 copies. A nice copy of a fragile book. Bloomfield & Mendelson A2.
Seller: Joseph J. Felcone Inc., ABAA, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W. H. POEMS. Faber & Faber (1930), London, 1930.
Price: US$3125.00 + shipping
Description: Stiff wraps with printed blue dustwrapper. Auden's first regularly published book after the very scarce 1928 POEMS privately printed by Stephen Spender. Bloomfield A2: 1000 copies. Two small chips to the top edge. One of the best copies we have seen with no fading of the blue integral dustwrapper. A beautiful copy
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.