The Ascent of F6 - A Tragedy in Two Acts.
by AUDEN, W.H., and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
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About This Item
Random House, New York., 1937. First U.S. edition, revised by Auden from the U.K. edition of the previous year. Octavo. 123 pages.Presentation copy from Christopher Isherwood, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''For Florence Weatherby, from Christopher Isherwood. January 1940''. The recipient ran Isherwood's local bookshop in Los Angeles.Endpapers tanned. Covers darkened at the spine and edges. Very good in very good, chipped and slightly torn dustwrapper darkened and rubbed at the spine.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
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- Title
- The Ascent of F6 - A Tragedy in Two Acts.
- Author
- AUDEN, W.H., and ISHERWOOD, Christopher
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Random House, New York.
- Date Published
- 1937
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