W.H. Auden Collected Poems 1st Edition 1976

Definitive collected poems of Auden, containing (in their final form) all the poems he wished to preserve; edited by Auden’s literary executor Edward Mendelson, who provides a preface detailing his editorial principles; green cloth boards with title label and gilt titling to spine; former owner’s inscription to front endpaper, some shelfwear to boards, stains to text block, mild toning to endpapers, o.w. Very Good throughout; dustwrapper edgeworn and rubbed, loss to head of spine, price clipped.