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About the House
by W.H. Auden
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good/Good
- Seller
-
Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Random House, 1965. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Good. 85 pages. First printing. Two sections: Thanksgiving for a Habitat; In and Out. 8vo, brown cloth with black cloth quarter, gilt lettering on spine, faded teal topstain, foxing to edges and end papers, tan stains to the latter, light foxing spots on many pages, bookstore sticker attached to ffep, in worn, unclipped DJ with chip to top of front panel, spine age-browned, rubbed along spine, light soil and faint foxing inside and out. Pages unmarked. Clipping of review of this book by G.S. Fraser in the NYT Book Review is laid in, along with clipping of Auden's "The Ballad of Barnaby".
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- Bookseller
- Berthoff Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- WBB-981
- Title
- About the House
- Author
- W.H. Auden
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Random House
- Date Published
- 1965
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- POETRY
- Bookseller catalogs
- English literature; Poetry; Auden;
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Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
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Berthoff Books sells books previously owned by the late Warner B. Berthoff, Professor of English and American Literature, emeritus, at Harvard University, and members of his family. Some books contain marginalia by Warner Berthoff, the late Prof. Ann E. Berthoff (U. Mass-Boston, English composition and rhetoric), or others, which we aim to describe accurately. Our inventory features English and American fiction and poetry, 20th-century literary criticism, world literature, history, and philosophy. Other categories are history and politics of Australia, Asia, South Africa and the Middle East; intelligence agencies and gnostic beliefs; Russian literature and criticism; and Russian and Soviet history.
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