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W. H. Auden. Letters from Iceland (signed By Auden). Faber, 1937.
Price: US$517.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Publishers green cloth. With three bookplates including a Rex Whistler plate. With library numbers written in pen. With general handling wear. Signed by Auden in pen. Internally a very good clean copy.
Seller: Babushka Books & Framers, Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
AUDEN, W. H.; Louis MacNiece. Letters from Iceland. Faber and Faber, London, 1937.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 268pp. Octavo in green cloth. B&W photos, folding map, top edge grey. Spine cocked and toned, light soiling and irregular toning to boards; moderate foxing to textblock edges, slight foxing to front matter, else interior unmarked; binding weak in places. Edgewear and short, creased tears to toned jacket; jacket unclipped, with price of 9s. Signed by Auden on flyleaf. With blank 1980s postcard of his likeness laid in.
Seller: COLLINS BOOKS, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
AUDEN, W. H.; MACNEICE, Louis. LETTERS FROM ICELAND. London: Faber and Faber., 1937.
Price: US$873.19 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Signed by the author, W. H. Auden. Original green cloth with red and grey lettering to the spine, in the dustwrapper, the front panel illustrated with a half-tone landscape photograph. With 51 illustrations, six diagrams and fold-out map. Upper edge with the publisher's blue topstain. A near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and lettering sharp, the contents clean throughout. Light toning to extremities of the cloth where light has seeped beneath the wrapper.2 A touch rubbed and pushed to the lower spine tip. Very light (barely visible) spotting to the fore-edge of the page block. In the better than usual example of the dustwrapper, the red lettering on the spine a little faded, rubbed and nicked to spine tips and corners, the laminate toned as usual. Not price-clipped (9s. net to the front flap). A particularly sharp and bright example. Neatly signed by Auden in black ink to the centre of the blank page between endpaper and half title. Auden and Macneice's generous hybrid of travelogue, poetry, and letters in verse and prose, included Auden's great 'Letter to Lord Byron', its five parts spread across the book. The volume has deservedly achieved its classic status and rarely, if ever, been out of print. Published 6 August 1937, 10,240 copies of the first impression were printed. (Bloomfield A15). Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.
Seller: LUCIUS BOOKS (ABA, ILAB, PBFA), York, United Kingdom
Price: US$1617.02 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The First UK printing published by Faber & Faber, London in 1937. The BOOK is in near Fine condition with juts some light toning to the spine and cover edges. Light toning to the text-block and page edges. Free from inscriptions. The grey top-stain remains vibrant. The WRAPPER is complete and is in near Fine condition with just very light edge-wear at the spine tips and corners. Light toning to the spine and edges. The red lettering to the spine remains unfaded. The wrapper is protected in a removable Brodart archival cover. The book has been signed (without dedication) by W.H. Auden to the second blank end-paper. Photographic illustrations throughout. The folding map of Iceland is present at the rear and is in fine condition. One of only 10,240 copies in the first printing. Increasingly scarce with such attributes. More images available on request. Ashton Rare Books welcomes direct contact.
Seller: Ashton Rare Books ABA : PBFA : ILAB, Market Harborough, United Kingdom