Auden, Signed (119 results)

Condition: As New. Signed Copy . Very Good dust jacket. Signed by author on half title page.

Hardcover. Condition: As new. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. First Edition. Signed by Schendler on half-title page. How-to from Aspen Ski Co's enviro guy.

Hard cover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First edition, stated; first printing, full number line. Inscribed and signed by the author on the half-title page. The book is square and unmarked; corners sharp, spine ends bumped. The dust jacket is not price-clipped (original price $26.95); minor edgewear at spine ends and corners; Brodart protected. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Thus. Xii + 153 Pages. A Presentation Inscription To The Previous Owner Otherwise A Bright And Soundly Bound Book In An Undamaged Dustjacket. Not Ex Library. Signed by One Author.

Disbound. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Extracted From Proceedings No. 6 Vol 47 Part A. Pagination Ii, 588-630, Plus Maps. Stapled Binding, No Covers. Clean And Soundly Bound. Not Ex Library. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Small 8vo, saddle stitched softcover wrappers, plain dust jacket in French folds, 23pp. Presentation copy with tipped in publisher's slip. Hinge exposed at title page, some rubbing to dust jacket with a short closed tear to crown of spine. Contents clean, binding firm. Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech (1960) by the French language modernist poet, translated by W.H. Auden. A nice copy.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Published in 1932, this is a 41 page short history of the Shropshire village of Condover, a paperback format with illustrations. This copy was a presentation copy from the author with his pencil notation faintly visible at top of front cover. Internally there are neatly written manuscript notes to the first two pages on Condover. CONDITION Some browning to covers with a small stain to lower corner of upper cover. Internally there is heavy foxing and browning throughout else in good general condition. This is a lighter item, overseas shipping costs will be reduced at checkout where possible. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. First edition. Octavo, ix, 186 pages. In Good minus condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine is cream with cream print on brown banner. Dust jacket in mylar; light edge wear. Boards in brown cloth; slight wear to spine caps and corners. Text block has spotting to top edge and endpapers . Illustrated: b&w plates (facsimiles). Signed in ink by Karl Shapiro on the front flyleaf. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column V. 1401442. FP New Rockville Stock.

Paperback. Condition: Very good. Paperback Octavo. wraps, 116 pp, signed by the editor on first page.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good +. First Edition. Poems by Jean Garrigue, Howard Moss, Muriel Rukeyser, W.S. Merwin, Theodore Roethke, Karl Shapiro, Auden, Cummings, Graves, Eberhart cover by Stuart Davis. Signed twice by Jean Garrigue, once beneath one of her poems and again after her essay on Edwin Muir. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Third printing. 8vo, pp. 81. Paper over boards with cloth spine. Presentation by Peter Viereck on flyleaf; " To Kathleen | Merry Christmas | Peter | December 1953" Corners little bumped, cover slightly soiled, and worn at ends of spine, o/w a VG tight copy. Association copy from library of Peter Viereck.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First separate edition, an offprint. Octavo. [10]pp. Stapled light green printed wrappers, [paginated: (163-172)]. Lightly tanned with slight crease at extremities of covers, else a near fine copy. German studies scholar Breon Mitchell's translation of Martin Grzimek's novel, 'Heartstop,' was awarded the American Translators Association's German Literary Prize for Distinguished Translations in 1987. Offprint, printed as an 'Extract from Oxford German Studies No. 1'. Signed by Breon Mitchell on front cover.

Softcover. Condition: VG. Very Good in glossy oblong wrappers, 87 pages, this copy is inscribed to a collector couple & SIGNED by the photographer on title page. Signed Bradley catalogues are rare.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American Edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at title page -"For Pfingston from Andrei Voznesentsky 1 Nov. , 1977". Association Copy, inscribed to noted Indiana poet and photographer Roger Pfingston. Near Fine, thin lines of sunning at top and bottom edges of spine, in Near Fine dust jacket, small chips at head of spine and small rubs at fore edge of front of jacket. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR.

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Printed wraps of this collection of Auden's poetry translated into French. William Meredith's copy, with his SIGNATURE on the front endpaper.

In-8°, pp. 909-921, brossura editoriale con dedica autografa degli autori (With the Authors compliments). Ottimo stato. Dei tre autori il più celebre è il Perkin (Londra, 1838-Harrow, 1907), grande chimico britannico scopritore della mauveina, o porpora di anilina (il primo colorante artificiale a essere sintetizzato) e autore della sintesi di profumi come la cumarina. Inglese.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 48. Poetry magazine. Original publisher's white stapled covers, lettered red. Contributors include: Sally Purcell; P. Levi S.J.; Elizabeth Jennings; John Wain; Chris Reid; and Andrew Harvey. Signed presentation from the editor, Andrew Harvey on the front inside cover to Hugh (Vercingetorix) Brogan (1936 Ð 2019) British historian and biographer. Very faint tanning, otherwise very good indeed. Signedes.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition 1968. Signed card tipped into endpaper. The book is very good++and bright. Contents good. The wrapper is very good+ and bright. Edges lightly rubbed. Age toning and light marking to front cover. More images can be taken upon request. Ref 15875/19231. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed by Christopher Isherwood with autograph only. "A Play in Three Acts." Clean, well-kept copy showing minimal wear. With name of former owner neatly penned to endpage. Patchy dark glue residue near hinges on endpages, and one small similar spot on facing page to title. Bit of wear at spine tips. Lettering to spine is a shade faded but still clear. With clear plastic wrapper. We have another signed play from the 1930s by Mr. Isherwood. Benefits the Friends of the Albany, Ca library. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 760 pages. Published in 1993. Definitive collection of writings for opera and drama. One of the greatest literary achievements by Wystan Hugh Auden and his collaborator, Chester Kallman. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only and as part of The Complete Works of W. H. Auden by Princeton University Press. The First Edition is now scarce. Presents W. H. Auden's and Chester Kallman's "Libretti And Other Dramatic Writings". The prodigious and enduring contribution to the performing arts by two literary giants. "Opera gave him the opportunity to rise to the High Style, not in an attempt to elevate his own status, but in service of the heroic voices of the singers. The works present their actions with an intensity unlike anything in even his greatest poems" (Publisher's blurb). Among many gems, a few stand out: Auden's and Kallman's "The Rake's Progress" for Igor Stravinsky; their libretti for Hans Werner Henze's "Elegy For Young Lovers" and "The Bassarids"; and their celebrated translation of "The Magic Flute" and adaptation of "Love's Labour Lost". Possessing a more natural gift for the theater, Chester Kallman became Auden's full-fledged co-creator (and lover), writing complete parts while working with Auden on the poet's assignments. Their masterpiece, "The Rake's Progress", is recounted by Robert Craft, Stravinsky's collaborator, as having been a seamless joint venture. On the vintage bookplate this copy comes with is handwritten evidence that HE, not Auden, wrote the tender, moving farewell of Baba The Bearded Lady from "The Rake's Progress: "I shall go back and grace the stage / where manner rules and wealth attends / Can I deny my time its rage? / My self-indulgent intermezzo ends. Chester Kallman". An absolute "must-have" title for W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman collectors. This title is a great book. Laid-in is a 5 X 3 inch vintage bookplate on which Chester Kallman wrote in blue ink-pen the parting words of Baba The Bearded Lady from "The Rake's Progress", demonstrating his full-fledged collaboration on the masterly libretto of Stravinsky's only opera. As far as we know, this is the only copy (with Signed And Lined Bookplate) of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Chester Kallman, who died in 1975, signed the vintage bookplate, NOT the book. A rare set thus. 1 signed and lined vintage postcard. Two of the greatest literary artists of the 20th century. A fine collectible set. ISBN 0691033013. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Extensive pencil annotations - neat, intelligent, erasable ones - throughout an otherwise unmarked near fine copy, SIGNED by the poet on title page in a lightly edgeworn, lightly soiled unclipped dustjacket with minor loss at tips and spinal extremities (mylar protected). The annotations are penciled in lightly in a minute, neat handwriting by the eminent McGill University literary scholar and Yeats expert Dr.Joseph Ronsley. An attractive copy, to our mind enhanced by the annotations. Photos available on request. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp. xxvii, [v], 926, [i]. Rebound in modern half brown morocco, marbled boards, raised bands lettered gilt on spine. Three stanzas cut by Auden from his poem 'In Memory of W. B. Yeats' handwritten out by Alan Ansen below the printed list of works by Auden. The final stanza refers to Kipling:'Time, that with this strange excuse/Pardoned Kipling and his views,' and Paul Claudel: 'And will pardon Paul Claudel,/Pardons him for writing well.' Presentation copy to Ansen from the editor of the book: 'For Alan with the editor's best wishes Edward M. 1991.' Edward Mendelson (born 1946) is a professor of English and Comparative Literature and the Lionel Trilling Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University. He is the literary executor of the Estate of W. H. Auden and the author or editor of several books about Auden's work.ÊAlan Ansen (1922-2006) was an American poet, playwright, and associate ofÊthe Beat GenerationÊwriters such as Kerouac, Burroughs and Corso. He worked asÊW. H. Auden's secretary and research assistant from 1948 to 1949. Slight staining to first few pages, otherwise very good indeed. ISBN: 0679731970 Very good indeed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 124 p. 22 cm. Excellent condition. Just a touch of foxing to prelims. Not price clipped. ($4.50) Inscribed by author. Book is as described - NO defects or marks of any kind. A lovely collectible copy. Inscribed by Author(s).

Henry Moore (illustrator). DESCRIPTION: No. XXXII of CL copies of the "A" edition printed and bound in red linen cloth for Europe. Another 150 copies were bound in green linen cloth ("B" edition) for the Americas. Folio size 16 1/2 x 13 1/2 inches which includes 13 poems and 21 lithographs by Henry Moore. The type was set and printed in Times Roman at the University Press, Oxford, by Vivian Ridler, Printer to the University. The Hodgkinson paper was made with the watermarks of the artist, the poet and the press by St. Cuthbert's Mill in Wells. The book was bound by Rudolf Rieser of Oberelvenich, Germany in red linen with black titling embossed in script on front cover. Separate portfolio (stiff chemise) bound with the same red linen cloth containing four additional loose lithographs by Moore. All contained in a black cloth-covered clamshell box. Book and each of the four additional loose lithographs are signed and numbered by the artist Henry Moore.____CONDITION: The book and chemise with four additional lithographs are in very fine condition. The black clamshell box has several areas of slight fading and minor rubbing on the rear panel, but all edges and corners are sharp and intact. NOTE: The round white 'spots' on the black clamshell box are photo artifact.____DISCUSSION: The Petersburg Press is a noted private press publisher of important livre d'artiste books and limited edition prints. They have worked with many of the most significant European and American Post War and Pop artists of their generation. Henry Moore was one of the most important and celebrated British artists, best known for his monumental semi-abstract bronze sculptures, usually a reclining figure. This livre d'artiste edition is an especially successful one, with Moore's lithographs dominating the pages, setting off and complementing Auden's complex verses. Moore dedicated his work to the poet's memory on hearing of his death in Austria on 29 September 1973._____ NOTE: This is an extremely large and heavy book which will incur an additional shipping charge domestically. International shipping cost with USPS International Priority EXPRESS Mail shipping with tracking to the United Kingdom and Europe is $125 U.S. dollars. Shipping cost to more distant locations may incur additional cost. Please read my comments regarding USPS international shipping and tracking in my AbeBooks storefront.

Hardcover. First U.S. Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 172 pages. In Very Good plus condition with Very Good dust jacket. Spine of jacket is dark purple with pink lettering. Dust jacket is sleeved in a protective mylar cover, and shows mild shelf wear on covers. Single small, closed tears in top and bottom edges of jacket front. Very small area of chipping in top corner of jacket front near spine. Boards show mild rubbing wear and light sunning along bottom edges. Text block shows negligible shelf wear. Inscribed in black ink by Joseph Brodsky to Myra Sklarew on title page: "Joseph Brodsky / For Myra Sklarew from guess who", followed by a small drawing of a heart. Shelved in Room A. Joseph Brodsky was a Nobel-prize winning Jewish, Russian-American poet who served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1991-1992. This book is inscribed to Myra Sklarew, another Jewish poet and professor who was a prominent figure within the Washington, D.C. literary scene alongside Brodsky. 1401039. Special Collections.

Condition: Good. SIGNED BY STEPHEN SPENDER - Quarto, 10 inches high by 7-1/2 inches wide. Golden yellow cloth titled in black on the spine with a vignette illustration in black on the front cover, in a pictorial dust wrapper. The dust jacket is creased with minor wear and rubbing at the edges. 255 pages, with several pages of illustrations. From the collection of James Thurman Bass, Jr. with his bookplate on the front pastedown. The edges of the first and last few leaves are foxed. There are a couple of score marks to the bottom edge of the book. Good. First American edition.Signed by Stephen Spender on the half-title.

Condition: Good. 8vo. Soft Covers, [56 pp.], Very Good. Letterpress on Glastonbury Antique Laid. (Brigham, p. 51).Provenance: Collection of Chiefly First Editions by Lawrence Durrell, most signed presentation copies, inscribed to his friend Jeremy Mallinson. Mallinson, was Gerald Durrell's right-hand man from the early days of the Jersey Zoo (now Durrell Wildlife Park).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. The author's first book, inscribed "For W.H. Auden, with admiration, Brewster Ghiselin, August 1946.".

En feuilles, couverture à larg. Condition: Très bon. Caine (illustrator). Edition bilingue imprimée en noir et en vert, illustrée de 2 gravures sur BOIS en violet de Michael Caine. Texte anglais accompagné de sa traduction française par Françoise Gouyou-Beauchamps. Tirage à 90 exemplaires numérotés et signés par l'artiste et la traductrice, sur papier Hahnemühle vergé. ENVOI autographe signé de Caine. Dédicacé par l'illustrateur.