Collected Poems

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THE FIRST TRADE EDITION In full red Chieftan calf, raised bands & gilt titles to spine. Internally, half title, [4], 7-696 pp, red marbled endpapers, bound by Baynton-Riviere Bath & stamped to verso of fep (4 tiny pin spots to spine base), a.e.g, Fine condition of the first trade edition. (229*147 mm) tThe definitive posthumous gathering of the poetry of W. H. Auden, one of the most influential English-language poets of the twentieth century. Published three years after his death, the volume was edited by his literary executor and scholar Edward Mendelson and was designed to represent the final form of the poetry Auden wished to preserve.