[Rarebooks] FS: W. H. Auden INSCRIBED to the First Woman He Made Love To

[Charles Agvent]

AUDEN, W. H. THE DYER'S HAND. London: Faber & Faber, (1963). First 
British Edition. Bloomfield A45b: 3000 copies, preceded by the American 
edition which had a larger printing. INSCRIBED and SIGNED "To/Hedwig 
[Petzold]/with love/from /Wystan" in 1963 on the front free endpaper and 
with seven manuscript corrections by Auden in the text. Sensational 
association copy! According to Humphrey Carpenter in W. H. AUDEN: A 
BIOGRAPHY (p. 69), Auden's "first sexual experience with a woman was 
when he went to bed with Frau Petzold ... and in the later period of the 
friendship he seems to have regarded her as a mother- or aunt-figure." 
Hinges fairly neatly repaired. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. 
(#005948) $4,500.00

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