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Great works of literature, often in their first edition. Classic and familiar stories as well as tales you have never heard before. We go back through four hundred years of storytelling.
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1934 The Orators: An English StudyLondon: 1934A smart second edition of Auden's long modernist poem in prose and verse.
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1936 The Ascent of F6: A Tragedy in Two ActsLondon: 1936First edition, first impression of this successful Auden-Isherwood play, complete with unclipped dust wrapper.
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1968 Secondary WorldsLondon: 1968A fascinating collection of four essays by W. H. Auden, based on his 'T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures'.
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1974 Thank you, FogLondon: 1974A first edition collection of W. H. Auden's final poetry, published posthumously.
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1971 A Certain WorldLondon : 1971A commonplace book by W. H. Auden, compiling the reading which has shaped his life.
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1974 Thank You, FogLondon: 1974A first edition collection of poems by W. H. Auden, which were published posthumously following his death in September of 1973.
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1938 On the FrontierLondon: 1938W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood's last collaborative play telling of an outbreak of war. The first impression in its unclipped dust wrapper.
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1953 The Ascent of F6London: 1953A parable about leadership and the nature of power, this marks the second dramatic collaboration between Auden and Isherwood.
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1934 The Orators an English StudyLondon: 1934The second edition of W. H. Auden's long poem, a popular Modernist work.
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1940 Another TimeLondon: 1940A very scarce, first edition copy of W H Auden's poetry anthology. With the vanishingly rare dustwrapper.
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1974 W H Auden Thank You Fog First Edition DustwrapperLondon: 1974A first edition of this work by W H Auden.
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1862-63 14Vol Works of Thomas de Quincey Fine Binding opium EaterEdinburgh: 1862-63An attractive set of works by Thomas de Quincey in Hatchard and Co. bindings.
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1862-74 16vols The Works of Thomas De Quincey Illustrated Essays Opium EaterEdinburgh: 1862-74The complete works of Thomas De Quincey.
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1862-3 15vol The Works of Thomas de Quincey Essays Opium EaterEdinburgh: 1862-3A handsomely bound collection of the essays of Thomas de Quincey.
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1880 16vols DE QUINCEY Works CONFESSIONS Opium EaterEdinburgh: 1880Complete set of sixteen leatherbound volumes with marble paper covered boards, marble paper pastedowns, and marbled foredge, with eleven frontispieces and a facsimile of the original manuscript of 'Shakespeare'.