[Rarebooks] FS: W. H. Auden's Commonplace Book, Inscribed to poet William Jay Smith

[Charles Agvent]

AUDEN, W. H. A CERTAIN WORLD. A COMMONPLACE BOOK. New York: Viking
(1970).    First   Edition.  Precedes   the  British   Edition.   This
alphabetical    listing   of  173   entries  with   Auden's   personal
commentaries  makes for some fascinating and insightful reading.  This
copy  is  INSCRIBED  to fellow poet William Jay Smith by  Auden  "with
love"  and  SIGNED by the poet as Wystan on the title page.  A  SIGNED
loose  bookplate  by  Smith  is  laid in. Near Fine  in  a  Near  Fine
dustwrapper.                                                   $750.00

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