AUDEN: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Richard Hoggart
From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 11 January 2000
From Orlando Booksellers, Lincoln, United Kingdom
Seller rating 5 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 11 January 2000
About this Item
First impression of the true first edition. ***Illustrated with a black and white frontispiece photographic portrait of W. H. Auden. ***Two-page preface by the author to the fore. ***Very good in beige cloth-covered boards with gilt titles to red block spine. Edges of boards very slightly rubbed. Tail of spine darkened. Prelims and last pages and edges of text-block foxed. Interior pages clean. No inscriptions. Spine tight. Pages clean. In a very good colour-illustrated dustwrapper that has not been price-clipped, showing original publisher's price of 12s. 6d. Chip to head of spine of dustwrapper adjoining top edge of front and rear panels of dustwrapper. Small tear and crease to top edge of rear panel of dustwrapper. Small closed tear to bottom edge of front panel of dustwrapper. Very small tear and associated very small loss to top corner of front panel of dustwrapper. Top edge of dustwrapper creased and rubbed. Top edge of front panel of dustwrapper has a small surface scuff. Spine of dustwrapper browned. Edge of front panel adjoining spine slightly browned. 222mm x 146mm. ***256 pages including chronological table, select bibliography, notes and references, author's note and index to rear. ***'There is no question that W. H. Auden is, with T. S. Eliot, on of the two most influential living poets in the english-speaking world. Here is a full-length critical study of his work, dealing with the earlier poems of the Thirties, the plays written in collaboration with Christopher Isherwood, and the long major poems, including The Age of Anxiety--- In discussing the religious, social, psychological and scientific interests of Auden's work, and in his close analysis of four poems written and different stages of Auden's development, Mr Hoggart throws a clarifying light on the difficulties of style and subject matter which deter many potential lovers of modern poetry from entering fully into the complex but exciting new world it offers.' (Quote from inside front of dustwrapper blurb). ***First impression of the true first edition in its original dustwrapper. ***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 Inventory # 3434
Bibliographic Details
Title: AUDEN: AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY
Publisher: Chatto & Windus, London
Publication Date: 1951
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
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