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Thank You, Fog. Last Poems.

First edition of W. H. Auden's Thank You, Fog

W. H. AudenWystan Hugh Auden, 1907–1973
First edition. Tall 8vo. Pp. 57, [1]. Quarter-bound navy blue cloth over ribbed, pale blue paper boards stamped in gilt to spine. Grey and black dust-jacket printed in white, with photographic portrait of Auden to rear panel by Horst Tappe [priced £1.75 to front flap]. With an introductory note by Prof. Edward Mendelson.
Slight bruising to upper board edges, else Very Fine.
Author's last poetry collection, published posthumously, and written upon his return to England in the spring of 1972 and prior to his death on September 29, 1973. By then, Auden had compiled the poems, decided on a title, and had written a dedication.
Accompanied by "Two Don Quixote Lyrics" and an "anti-masque" titled "The Entertainment of the Senses," jointly written with the poet and librettist, Chester Kallman. Some of the poems had already appeared on the pages of The New Yorker, Vogue, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New York Review of Books.
edition
first edition
format
hardback
publisher
Faber and Faber
published in
London
publication year
1974
ISBN
0571106773
genre
poetry
language
English
binding style
quarter cloth
binding state
original binding
condition  . . .
fine
of jacket
fine
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ref.58U 743