The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue

by W. H Auden

$4,000 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

New York: Random House, 1947. First edition, first printing preceding the British edition. Signed by W. H. Auden on the title page with best wishes in slightly watery blue ink. viii , 138 pp. Bound in publisher's dark teal cloth with spine blocked and lettered in gilt and brown; brown top stain. Fine in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to ends, tear to rear joint with associated small patch

• Printing: first

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