[AUDEN, WYSTAN HUGH]
ELLMAN, RICHARD. Yeats: The Man and the Masks. New York: Macmillan, 1948. First printing. Black cloth with gilt titles. 8 1/8 inches (21 cm). viii, 331 pp. With a gift inscription on the front free endpaper from W. H. Auden to Lincoln Kirstein, "Lincoln/with love/Wystan./Christmas 1948." Spine sunned, internally fine. * TEALE, EDWIN WAY. The Wilderness World of John Muir... Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954. With a gift inscription from W. H. Auden to Dorothy (presumably Dorothy Farnham, author of Auden in Love), "To Dorothy/with love/from/Wystan/Christmas 1954." Original publisher's cloth. 8 1/8 inches (21 cm). 332 pp. Endsheets foxed, slightly affecting inscription. * CARPENTER, EDWARD, EDITOR. A House of Kings: The History of Westminster Abbey. London: John Baker, (1966). One of 500 specially bound copies, this copy presented to W. H. Auden by the dean of Westminster (via handwritten inscription on the colophon). Bound in full red morocco, with titles and insignia stamped in gilt. 10 inches (25.5 cm). xix, 491 pp. Mild soiling to boards, slight edgewear, spine slightly cocked, generally an attractive copy.
Provenance:
Collection of Lincoln Kirstein