Prolific Devourer by Auden: First Edition (26 results)

Pb. Condition: VG-. Later. 101pp. Corners & ends of spine lightly rubbed; slight crease top front cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Near fine book and jacket. Price-clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Wear and creasing to the edges and corners. Minor stains.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Hardcover, 1981 first edition. No. 42 Summer. Text, dust jacket and boards in near fine condition. Dust jacket in brodart. Binding firm. Text free from markings. {93 pages}.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Minor shelf wear to binding. Text and images unmarked. Dj lightly worn with sunned spine in a mylar cover.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. VG in wraps (sl rub/minor nicks to covers). 8vo 93,[19]pp Previously unpubl ished memoir. Issued as Antaeus No. 42, Summer 1981 (with index to Antaeus 1 through 42, plus ads). Size: 8vo - over 7 3/4" - 9 3/4" Tall. b/w photo (port); ads (illustrator). Book. …

Condition: As New. First edition copy. . Like New dust jacket. In protective mylar cover. (Aphorisms, Apothegms).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st. POETRY-NEW small hardcover in its jacket. black/red/white w/black lettering Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. x, 101p., preface, very good first trade edition stated in quarter-cloth boards and unclipped dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Ecco Press, 1993. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is like new. Dust jacket is like new.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Dust Jacket. First Trade Edition. 101 pages; slightly cocked spine. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects. No markings.; - Your satisfaction is our priority. We offer free returns and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your item will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. DJ in archival cover. Stated first trade edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First trade edition. Introduction by Edward Mendelson. Small octavo. 101pp. Binding tiny bit cocked else fine in fine dust jacket. Advance copy with a sheet laid in (sheet is creased at both ends).

Card Wrappers. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 93pp., 19pp. ads. A previously unpublished book. Edward Mendelson; '. a book of aphorisms and reflections written in the summer - and abandoned in the autumn - of 1939.' Includes an index to Anteus 1- 42.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 8vo. - over 7¾ in. - 9¾ in., 93pp. Boards clean with light shelfwear, tight binding, interior text clean. Dust jacket without tears and clean with minor fading to spine and jacket edges, in protective mylar cover.…

Condition: FINE. First printing. A book of aphorisms begun by Auden in 1939 - part 1 had originally appeared in Anteus in 1976, but this is the first publication of the entire work. The entire issue is devoted to this and to an index of Anteus, Numbers 1- 42. The uncommon hardcover issue. Fine in a near fine dustjacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover version of the Antaeus literary magazine from Summer 1942. It is comprised almost entirely of an unpublished book by W. H. Auden - The Prolific and the Devourer. Auden began the book of alphorisms and reflections in the summer of 1939 and abandoned it in the fall of 1939. He wrote it during his first months in America when his attitudes towards Marxism, Paficism, and Optimism were changing. Auden later renounced his optimistic predictions of the moral improvement of humans which can be found in Part IV of the book. This is a tight and bright copy. Only flaws are minor bumping to top and bottom of spine. Dust jacket spine is lightly faded, protected in an archival cover. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 93 pages.…

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Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. Wrappers. 93pp. Front fly creased, light offsetting on wrappers, spine slightly cocked, very good. This issue is comprised of *The Prolific and the Devourer* a previously unpublished book by Auden, and the index to Antaeus 1-42.

Hardback. Condition: Good copy in like dust jacket. First Edition. Hardback. First edition. The first publication of these four works of aphorisms and reflections begun in 1939 and then abandoned as Auden changed his views as the war developed. Edited by Daniel Halpern. This is issue 42 of the periodical Antaeus. 93pp.+ publisher's adverts. White cloth is heavily foxed just to very edges but is otherwise clean. Dust jacket is clean but unevenly sunned. Small nick to the dust jacket spine. Text is clean. Binding is sound. Good copy in like dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Edition (first printing) the casebound issue. Large 8vo. 93pp + xix advertisements. Beige cloth lettered in black at the spine and upper board. A touch of toning to the cloth, and the tips of two corners fractionally rubbed. A very good copy in very good non-price-clipped dust wrapper. The first complete printing of Auden's lengthy four-part book of aphorisms and reflections (written in the summer 1939 during his first months in America and subsequently abandoned) here occupies the entirety of issue 42 of the quarterly periodical 'Antaeus'.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Hardcover issue of the magazine that is devoted to the Auden piece.

dj. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's cloth in tan pictorial dust jacket; 93,[19](ads)pp.; photographic portrait frontispiece. Jacket a bit cockled, spine quite sunned, else Near Fine in Very Good jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition; First Printing. First edition. Near fine in fine dust jacket. (Hint of foxing at edges. ) The Auden piece comprises the entire issue. (B).

Softcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. First separate edition. UNCORRECTED PROOF. Near fine in plain tan printed wrappers. (Printed date inked-out & new pub. Date inserted. Faint trace of soiling on rear cover. ).

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, 1981. Softcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. NEW EU 3 EURO CHARGE FOR IMPORTS IS INCLUDED IN OUR SHIPPING PRICE. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK, ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.…