W. H Auden
73 copies for sale · $20–$4,000 · 30 first editions · 4 signed
Notable copies for sale
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$4,000
The Enchafed Flood: Or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea, Three Critical Essays on the R (first edition, signed) — Burnside Rare Books$900
Poems (first edition) — Burnside Rare Books$1,800
The Platonic Bow (first edition) — Riverrun Books & Manuscripts$750
The Platonic Blow (first edition) — Riverrun Books & Manuscripts$225
Nones (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£135
Nones (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£125
For the Time Being (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£75
The Enchafed Flood, or, The Romantic Iconography of the Sea (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£75
The Enchaféd Flood: or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea Jacket title: Three Critical Es (first edition) — Lorne Bair Rare Books$75
The Prolific and the Devourer (first edition) — Good Books in the Woods$50
About the House (first edition) — Adrian Harrington Rare Books£50
Works on the market
CITY WITHOUT WALLS, ; And Other Poems,5 copies · $30–$200
Thank You, Fog: Last Poems4 copies · $60–$125
The Orators: An English Study3 copies · $30–$200
COLLECTED SHORTER POEMS 1927-19573 copies · $35–$89
About the House2 copies · $125–$300
Collected Longer Poems2 copies · $100–$150
Nones2 copies · £125–£135
SECONDARY WORLDS; The T. S. Eliot Memorial Lectures Delivered At Eliot College in the Univ2 copies · $98–$125
The Gobble Poem snatched from the notebooks of W. H. Auden & now believed to be in the Mor2 copies · $75–$100
The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue1 copy · $4,000
The Dance of Death1 copy · $2,500
Poems1 copy · $1,800
The Enchafed Flood: Or the Romantic Iconography of the Sea, Three Critical Essays on the R1 copy · $900
The Platonic Bow1 copy · $750
For the Time Being1 copy · $375
Litany and Anthem for S. Matthew's Day: Written for the Church Of S. Matthew, Northampton 1 copy · $300
Collected Shorter Poems 1930-19441 copy · $250
Market context
31 copies of W. H Auden's works have left the market recently; the median last-listed price was $57 (last listed prices at time of sale or removal, not confirmed sale prices).
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