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[W. H. Auden, his copy]. Bruce Dickins, editor. Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples....
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[W. H. Auden, his copy]. Bruce Dickins, editor. Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1915.8vo. Publisher's brick-red cloth, spine stamped in gilt. Housed in a cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION. W. H. AUDEN'S COPY OF THIS WORK ON EARLY POETRY WITH PENCILED NOTES IN AUDEN'S HAND CONTAINING AN EARLY DRAFT OF A PORTION (PART THREE) OF WHAT WOULD BECOME HIS POEM "THE AGE OF ANXIETY" FOR WHICH HE WON THE PULITZER PRIZE IN 1948. ALSO WITH A PENCILED PORTION OF "THE ORATORS" (Journal of an Airman). With penciled annotations throughout, including runic symbols in the margins, presumably in Auden's hand.
Condition: Binding worn and rubbed, stain to rear cover, spine ends pushed and frayed, cracked before the second, fourth, and fifth gatherings. Text with pale spotting throughout, some scattered soiling.
Provenance: W. H. Auden (purported gift from one of his collaborators in the translations from the Icelandic; Auden traveled to Iceland in 1936 with Louis MacNeice, which the pair documented in the book Letters from Iceland, published in 1937). From the William A. Strutz Library.
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2024 December 11 Important English and American Literature: The William A. Strutz Library, Part II, Rare Books Signature® Auction #6300 (go to Auction Home page)
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