Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1981 Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. Hardcover. Stated First American Edition/First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: VG; chipping, open tears, and a missing piece from cover at top of spine; closed tear at bottom of spine cover. Charcoal Gray cloth boards and spine with bright gold lettering on spine and front board. 495 pp.This is the first major biography of the man who is arguably the most accomplished and honored poet of his era. His innovations and insights are so much a part of the poet's consciousness today that we tend to forget how great was his contribution. As part of this biography are many letters Auden hoped would be destroyed and poems that have never been published. A clean and very presentable copy in Brodart mylar.

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Bookseller: Walnut Valley Books/Books by White (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 003336
Title: W.H Auden; A Biography
Author: Humphrey Carpenter
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: 1st Edition
ISBN 10: 0395308534
ISBN 13: 9780395308530
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Place of Publication: Boston, MA
Date Published: 1981
Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
Keywords: poetry, English language, W.H. Auden, WWII, London in the War, Berlin in the War, WWII in Europe, poet, English poet
Bookseller catalogs: Biographies;

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