first edition
1955 · New York
by W.H. Auden
New York: Random House, 1955. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Random House, 1955. First Edition, stated First Printing. Octavo. 84 pp. Printed dust jacket with $3.00 price intact. Brown and black boards stamped in gray and gilt; gray endpapers. Dust jacket chipped and toned along edges with some mild rubbing. Boards worn along edges; corners slightly bumped; minor fraying to crown; touch of fading along edges. Spine gives a little but overall binding sound. Toning to endpapers with Savile Book Shop sticker to rear pastedown, but interior otherwise unmarked. A Very Good copy of the National Book Award for Poetry winner. (Inventory #: 29442)