AUDEN (W.H.).
Epistle to a Godson & Other Poems.
First edition. 8vo. Original half brown cloth with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. London, Faber & Faber, 1972.
First edition. 8vo. Original half brown cloth with gilt title to spine, dust jacket. London, Faber & Faber, 1972.
A first edition of Auden's final collection of poetry published while he was still living.
Provenance: From the library of Orwell scholar and former UCL deputy librarian Ian Angus, with his neat pencilled ownership to the front free endpaper. Angus was the co-editor of Orwell's Collected Journalism, Essays and Letters published in 1968 and also later contributed to editing the enormous 20-volume edition of Orwell's Complete Works published 1997-8.
An excellent copy, rear wrapper with a few scuff marks.