[Rarebooks] FS: SYDNEY SMITH Edited and SIGNED by W. H. Auden, price reduced

[Charles Agvent]

Price reduced to $1000 NET

[AUDEN, W. H.]. SELECTED WRITINGS OF SYDNEY SMITH. New York: Farrar 
Straus Cudahy, (1956). First Edition. Bloomfield & Mendelson B61. Edited 
and with an introduction by W. H. Auden of this collection of letters 
and essays by Smith (1771-1845), "the most famous wit of his 
generation." This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Auden on the half-title 
page to David Cecil "with best wishes/from/Wystan Auden." Lord Cecil, a 
biographer of Jane Austen and an essayist, was a professor of English at 
Oxford where Auden graduated in 1928 and returned in 1972 as an honorary 
fellow. A scarce book to find signed by Auden, this is an especially 
nice association. Fine in a Near Fine dustwrapper with minor chips at 
the spine tips. (#010798)        $1,500.00

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