Forewords and Afterwords : First printing

Auden, W. H. ; Mendelson, Edward (Selected by)

ISBN 10: 0571102956 / ISBN 13: 9780571102952

Published by Faber and Faber, London, United Kingdom, 1973

About this Item

True first British printing with original unclipped jacket (£3.95). Selected by Edward Mendelson. Jacket has minor patchy edge/shelf wear, a couple of very small (approx. 5mms) tears, the odd small mark, odd small crease/rub to edges, a little pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine and to corners and a few small scratches. Boards are near fine with minor pushing/bumping to corners and very minor pushing/rubbing to head/tail of spine. Pages are generally clean and the binding is tight. Small mark to lower corner of a few pages. Top edge of pages have the odd small mark/minor foxing. Pages slightly tanned. Odd small mark/spot of foxing to page edges and bottoms. Very occasional small mark to pages. No other faults. All books described honestly and accurately. Paypal accepted.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Forewords and Afterwords : First printing
• Publisher: Faber and Faber, London, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571102956
• ISBN 13: 9780571102952
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Hardcover with jacket. Good condition. First edition. Selected by Edward Mendelson. The plastic protected jacket and edges of the hardcover are lightly marked and edgeworn. Foxing on the page block and a few pages (mostly at front and rear). Penned details on the front pastedown and title pages; further pen marginalia on the early pages - all text remains legible throughout. The binding is sound. CM

From the Inside Flap

The essays in this collection were written as reviews, mainly for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker, on books by or about Alexander Pope, Vincent van Gogh, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, Oscar Wilde, and A. E. Housman, or as introductions to editions of the classical Greek writers, the Protestant mystics, Shakespeare, Goethe, Kierkegaard, Tennyson, Grimm and Andersen, Poe, G. K. Chesterton, Paul Valery, and others. Throughout, these prose pieces reveal the same wit and intelligence--as well as the vision--that sparked the brilliance of Auden's poetry.