A Change of World.
by RICH, Adrienne Cecile. AUDEN, W.H. (introduces)
- Used
- first
- Condition
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Yale University Press, New Haven., 1951. First edition. Octavo. 85 pages. Volume 48 of the Yale Series of Younger Poets series. Five page Foreword by W.H. Auden who was the editor of this series. The author's first collection, comprising forty poems. Only 551 copies were printed.Contemporary (July 1951) ownership signature on front free endpaper. Front joint cracked but holding. Slight fading to edges of covers. Very good in very good dustwrapper a bit faded at the spine and with a 3cm closed tear to tail of spine.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RICHADRI015972
- Title
- A Change of World.
- Author
- RICH, Adrienne Cecile. AUDEN, W.H. (introduces)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Publisher
- Yale University Press, New Haven.
- Date Published
- 1951
- Keywords
- first book
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- Tail
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