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W H Auden and Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneatth the Skin or Where is Francis? a play in three acts, with publicity sheet for the first production of the play by The Group Theatre. Faber & Faber Limited, London, 1935.

Price: US$5.20 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First publication, May 1935, 180 pages, book in fair/good condition, top edge dust marked and spotted, top of spine bumped and slightly rubbed, bottom of spine heavily bumped and worn, ownership inscription on front free end-paper dated 1936, with remnants of dust-wrapper (worn, stained and torn). Loosely inserted is a publicity sheet for the first production of the play in 1935 by The Group Theatre.

Seller: Provan Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

W.H. Auden & C.Isherwood. The Dog Beneath The Skin. London: Faber and Faber Ltd, 1935.

Price: US$6.50 + shipping

Description: paperback, good condition, 180pp.

Seller: Theatreshire Books, Dacre, NYK, United Kingdom

AUDEN, W. H. & ISHERWOOD, Christopher. The Dog Beneath The Skin Or Wher Is Francis?. U.K / Faber & Faber, 1935.

Price: US$7.15 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: With a sub-title of 'A Play In Three Acts'. This was the first Auden-Isherwood collaboration. / The play describes the quest by the hero Alan Norman to find Sir Francis Crewe, the missing heir of Honeypot Hall in Crewe. The quest takes him on a satiric journey through Europe and England, accompanied by a large dog, who proves to be Sir Francis in disguise. /// This is a 'cloth-bound' 1st edition hardback in good condition-the cloth of the cover is rubbed & a little marked. (180 pages).

Seller: Bookenastics, Liverpool, United Kingdom

AUDEN, W. H: & ISHERWOOD, CHRISTOPHER:. THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN OR WHERE IS FRANCES? A Play in Three Acts. Faber & Faber London 1935, 1935.

Price: US$7.65 + shipping

Description: second impression, ex lib, with library stamp to fep, red cloth, 180pp, VG-(v sl bruised corners, sl sunned & soiled boards, booksellers stamp & prev owners inscr to fep, sl foxing & soiling to ep's & edges, sl cocked) d/w VG-(large chipped spie head & sl chipped upper front cover, sl wear & tears to upper extrems with v sl chipping & tears to spine foot, price clipped, sunned & soiled)

Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand

Auden, W.H and Isherwood, Christopher. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where Is Francis?. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1935.

Price: US$7.80 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 225 x 150mm. pp. 180. English text. First edition of the play 'The Dog Beneath the Skin' by W.H.Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Bound in original red boards. Some foxing and marking to endpages and some moderate marking to boards, otherwise clean. Binding strong. No underlining.

Seller: Peter Rhodes, Southampton, United Kingdom

AUDEN W.H. and C. ISHERWOOD.. The Dog beneath the Skin; or Where is Francis? A play in three acts.. , 1935.

Price: US$10.08 + shipping

Description: London: Faber and Faber 1935. 8vo. Or.cl. 180pp. 1st ed. Fine.

Seller: Berkelouw Rare Books, Berrima, NSW, Australia

Auden, W.H. & Isherwood, Christopher. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis?. Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$10.40 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 180pp, Head & Tail bands sl. rubbed Size: 8vo

Seller: Scorpio Books, IOBA, Bungay, United Kingdom

Auden, W. H. & Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts. Faber and Faber Limited, London, 1935.

Price: US$13.93 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: First edition. No dustjacket. ex-libris, neatly stuck to front free endpaper. Text very good and unmarked. Spine a little frayed at head and tail. Insert - leaflet concerning first production of the play by Rupert Doone (The Group Theatre, 9 Great Newport St. London W.C.2.).

Seller: Theologia Books, La Charite sur Loire, France

Auden W.H. & Isherwood Christopher. The Dog Beneath the Skin. London Faber & Faber, 1935.

Price: US$16.89 + shipping

Description: 8vo(22.4x14.4) HB 1st edition 180pp. Red cloth covered boards with blue lettering to spine, shows a little age discolouring & a little corner bumping but still good++. Unclipped yello/blue dut jacket with yellow/blue letterint a little edge wear & age discolouring-good+. Bookseller label to lower fep, & endpapers show minor age discolouring else internlally v.good+. (420g)

Seller: Bentfinger Book Services, Loughborough, United Kingdom

W. H. AUDEN AND C. ISHERWOOD. THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN. FABER AND FABER, 1935.

Price: US$18.88 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: RO60062918: 1935. In-12. Broché. Etat d'usage, 2ème plat abîmé, Dos plié, Mouillures. 180 pages. Premier plat illustré en couleurs. Ouvrage légèrement déformé. . . . Classification Dewey : 820-Littératures anglaise et anglo-saxonne

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

Auden, W. H.; Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin, or, Where Is Francis? A Play in Three Acts.. London, Faber and Faber., 1935.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Description: Sixth printing 1954. -- Hardcover. Condition: very good minus (stain to top-edge; endsheets tanned) with good-only dust jacket (spine tanned; short tears; price-clipped).

Seller: Bucks County Bookshop IOBA, Doylestown, PA, U.S.A.

Auden, W. H. and Christopher Isherwood.. THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN.. Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$20.91 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1935. Faber and Faber. First. VG. Integral colour cover. 9x6. 180pp. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? is a play in three acts by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood, which was first performed in the early autumn of 1935, Directors: Tyrone Guthrie and Rupert Doone.Its many characters include the Vicar of Pressan Ambo, General Hotham, two journalists and assorted others - bus conductor, poet, diners, lunatics and prostitutes.

Seller: Cambridge Rare Books, Cambridge, GLOUC, United Kingdom

Auden, W. H. & Isherwood, Christopher. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis?. Faber & Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$25.99 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Red cloth with blue titles; lightly rubbed at extremities; spine dulled; edges slightly yellowed; top edge dust-stained; small inscription from a previous owner on front free endpaper; slightly grubby. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Caledonia Books, Glasgow, United Kingdom

Auden, W.H. & Christopher Isherwood. THE DOG BENEATH THE SKIN. London, Faber, 1935.

Price: US$47.50 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: 8vo, about fine in A POOR D.J., mostly there but missing half the spine, laid in a flyer from THE GROUP THEATRE announcing a london production of the play.(vv1/1

Seller: NUDEL BOOKS, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907-1973). Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986). The dog beneath the skin, or, Where is Francis? : a play in three acts / by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. London : Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$50.12 + shipping

Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 180 pages ; 23cm. Subjects: English drama -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

Auden (W.H.) and Christopher Isherwood.. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts.. Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$51.98 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 180, crown 8vo, original red cloth, backstrip lettered in blue with very slight lean to spine, top edge slightly dusty, others untrimmed, a few spots to endpapers, dustjacket a little nicked and chipped with darkened backstrip panel, very good. (Bloomfield & Mendelson A9a)

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom

W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin Or Where is Francis? a Play in Three Acts. Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$60.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The mildly edge worn volume has a few rough cut fore-edges, an ink name on the front endpaper and very light offsetting to the endpapers. The dust jacket, has some mild soiling, is uniformly clipped on all corners (price of "7s.6d. net" is intact), is lightly edge worn, has shallow chips on the spine ends and corners, and there is some reinforcing tape on the spine tail verso. The jacket is now sleeve protected. Laid in are two advertisements for this play performed in 1936 at the New Half Moon Theatre in London.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Auden, W.H. (Wystan Hugh) (1907-1973). Isherwood, Christopher (1904-1986). The dog beneath the skin, or, Where is Francis? : a play in three acts / by W.H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. London : Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$64.00 + shipping

Description: Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 180 pages ; 23cm. Subjects: English drama -- 20th century. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

AUDEN, W.H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. The Dog Beneath The Skin. Or Where is Francis? A Play in three Acts by.. Faber & Faber London, 1935.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: First Edition. First Issue. DW. 180pp. Upper board very slightly marked. Some very light foxing to contents. Wrapper slightly worn, with small close tears, very slightly soiled, dulled to spine o/w VG+/VG.

Seller: Addyman Books, Hay-on-Wye, United Kingdom

W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin Or, Where is Francis?. Faber and Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$70.18 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: A first edition of this play in three acts by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. This play was the first Auden-Isherwood collaboration and an important contribution to English poetic drama in the 1930s. It was first performed by the Group Theatre in 1936. In a cloth binding in original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, sound with some bumping. Ink inscription to front pastedown. Dustwrapper sound with chipping especially to head and tail of spine. Spine sunned. Internally, generally firmly bound. Pages generally bright and clean with occasional spot and handling mark Good

Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom

Auden, W. H.. The Dog Beneath the Skin Or Where is Francis? a Play in Three Acts [With notice of FIRST PRODUCTION]. Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$71.48 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition, first issue, in unclipped dust-jacket -- with notice of first production of the play. Red cloth binding is tight and bright, the text block has original rough cut fore-edges, all pages are clean, no inscriptions. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (price of "7s.6d. net" is intact). It is lightly edge worn, sunned to the spine, with some shallow chips on the spine ends and a meandering tear of 60mm to the top left of front panel (see photo), which is held with reversible archival Japanese webbing tape, and also by the archival mylar protective sleeve in which the DJ is now housed. Loosely inserted is the first notice for the very first production of the play by the Group theatre, irected by Tyrone Guthrie, in autumn 1935. Fine copy of this scarce piece of ephemera,

Seller: Polyanthus Books, London, United Kingdom

Auden, W. H. and Isherwood, Christopher. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis ? A Play in Three Acts. Faber and Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: The first British edition of this three act play co written by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood. Published by Faber and Faber in 1935. Bound in publisher's red cloth. A very good copy of the book with light shelf wear. Dust jacket very good with a one inch tear to the base of the rear panel and a dime sized spot of darkening to the lower fore corner of the front panel. Spine toned.

Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.

Auden, W.H. & Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin + On the Frontiers (first printings). Faber and Faber Ltd., London, 1935.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Both books are first editions; first printings. Faber & Faber. London. The Dog Beneath the Skin - 1935. 180 pages. 1st/1st. Faint foxing to endpapers. Red cloth shows minor wear. Laid in is the rare original production slip announcing this title's first ever stage production; from 1935. On the Frontier - 1938. 123 pages. Book is tight and clean; minor wear to red cloth panels; light shelf-rubbing. Two of Auden's plays; first edition; first printing with related ephemera.

Seller: Medium Rare Books, Mountainside, NJ, U.S.A.

Auden, W. H. and Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin; or Where is Francis? a play in three acts. Faber and Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, 8 x 5 1/3 inches (203 x 133 mm); 180 pp, printed on laid paper; pink cloth with black title on spine. Dust jacket with price (2s. 6d. net) intact on front flap, sunned on edges and spine, with a couple of chips but DJ in good condition. First performed by the Group Theatre in 1936, this is the first of several Auden-Isherwood collaborations which made an important contribution to English drama in the 1930s. A curious detail about this play is that there were two endings: one by Isherwood which appears in the printed version, and a different, more dramatic one by Auden for the staged version. From the estate of Robert Cecil Bald (1901 -1965), an Australian scholar of English Literature, who moved to the US to teach at Cornell University in 1937 and was then a professor at the University of Chicago from 1952 to 1965.

Seller: Rob Zanger Rare Books LLC, Middletown, NY, U.S.A.

AUDEN, W. H. and ISHERWOOD, Christopher.. The Dog Beneath the Skin.. Faber and Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: 180 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First edition; one of 2000 copies. A few light spots to endpapers; else a very near fine copy in a price-clipped jacket with a tiny hole in the back panel and a little use to the top edge. An attractive copy.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.

Auden, W.H. and Christopher Isherwood. The Dog Beneath the Skin or Where is Francis? a play in three acts. Faber and Faber, London, 1935.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, one of 2000 copies. 180 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Broomfield and Mendelson A9a Blue cloth. Fine in almost fine dust jacket

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.

Auden (W.H. and) Christopher Isherwood.. The Dog Beneath the Skin or, Where is Francis? A Play in Three Acts.. Faber and Faber, 1935.

Price: US$1267.06 + shipping

Description: FIRST EDITION, pp. 180, cr.8vo., original red cloth, backstrip lettered in blue, very slight lean to spine, dustjacket faintly dustsoiled with a nick at foot of front panel, backstrip panel a little darkened, very good. Signed by the author (as 'W. H. Auden') on the title-page; the book is uncommon signed. (Bloomfield & Mendelson A9a)

Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom