Auden Translators (11 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket. 1ST U.S. ED. Very close to fine in lightly edgeworn dj, nicked at spine crown.

141pp. + ad. 12mo Mass market Paperback. Text margins browned, else VG+. 0-14-042138-6.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Black cloth covered boards, silver lettering on spine, corners sharp, lightly age-toned spine, owner's name on flyleaf, some annotations in pencil, binding tight. ; 9.4 x 6.4 x .12; 108 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ex library hardback with dust jacket covered in plastic, usual stamps/markings. Cellotape used to hold dj in place which has discoloured, very small stain to margin on pp 36-37 otherwise a good, clean copy. 1st published 1969 by Faber & Faber, London translated from the Icelandic by Paul B. Taylor & W. H. Auden, will be despatched immediately from UK. 34B*.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Limited to 130 copies in wrappers, numbered 1-100 and i-xxx (hors commerce) of which this copy is xi. Blue paper wrap covers are slightly faded over spine. Otherwise Fine.

hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. New York. 1970. April 1970. Random House. 1st American Edition. A Few Small Marking Pen Marks At Top Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears. Translated from the Icelandic by Paul B. Taylor & W. H. Auden. Peter H. Salus & Paul B. Taylor. 175 pages. hardcover. Jacket Design By Anita Karl. keywords: Europe Scandinavia Iceland Literature Poetry Mythology Translated World Literature. DESCRIPTION - The POETIC or ELDER EDDA is a compilation made about A.D. 1200 of earlier Icelandic poems on cosmology, mythology, and the stories of Norse heroes. Together with the PROSE or YOUNGER EDDA, it is the chief source of our knowledge of Scandinavian mythology. This new translation - the result of a collaboration between a distinguished scholar and a major poet who has always felt a deep instinctive sympathy for the great masterpieces of Northern Europe-succeeds superbly in conveying the power, sharpness, and precision of the original. It is prefaced with a most helpful introduction by Professor Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor. inventory #23849 A Few Small Marking Pen Marks At Top Of Front Free Endpaper, Otherwise Very Good in Slightly Worn Dustjacket With Some Tears.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. First American edition, first printing. 8vo. Cloth. 173 p. Illustrated. Introduction by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor. Notes by Peter H. Salus. Dedicated to J. R. R. Tolkien. A compilation, made about 1200 A.D., or earlier Icelandic poems on cosmology, mythology, and the stories of the Norse heroes. One of the chief sources of knowledge of Scandinavian mythology. Staining to page edges. Good in very good dustjacket in mylar cover.

Translated from the Icelandic by. Introduction by Peter H. Salus & Paul B. Taylor. Notes by Peter H. Salus. First edition. 8vo. Original black cloth with gilt title to spine, price-clipped dust jacket. London, Faber & Faber.  Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell's Complete Works published 1997-8. A near fine copy, jacket price clipped with just a hint of fading to spine panel.

Hardcover. First Edition. Gilt-lettered boards. One of 450 copies printed on Rives Heavy paper. The decorative brackets and frontispiece were adapted by Mary Ellen McFadden from early Icelandic representations of Thor's hammer. The Icelandic text edited by Peter H. Salus and Paul B. Taylor and translated by Taylor and W .H. Auden. SIGNED by Auden after his crossed-out name on the title page. Just about Fine, issued without a dustwrapper.