The Ecco Press, 1996. Soft cover. Very Good. 101 pages plus 10-page intro. First Ecco Press paperback edition. Published posthumously, a collection of reflections and aphorisms written in 1939 - "an essential work for understanding the evolution of Auden's life and writing" (back cover). Introduction by Edward Mendelson. Mass-market-sized paperback with matte wraps, lightly soiled including by sticker remnants at bottom of back cover, corners sharp, faint foxing to edges, pages unmarked.

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Bookseller: Berthoff Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: WBB-1002
Title: The Prolific and the Devourer
Author: W.H. Auden
Format/Binding: Soft cover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Binding: Paperback
ISBN 10: 0880014652
ISBN 13: 9780880014656
Publisher: The Ecco Press
Place of Publication: New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published: 1996
Keywords: APHORISMS, EDWARD MENDELSON
Bookseller catalogs: English literature; American Literature; Auden;

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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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Edges: The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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