The Table Talk of W. H. Auden. Edited by Nicholas Jenkins with an Introduction by Richard Howard.
New York: Sea Cliff Press, 1989. 8vo. First edition. Limited of 165 copies. One of 150 copies bound in Bemboka, with a printed paper label to the spine, and endpapers printed on Moriki froma block by Dean Bornstein. Set in Janson with Fournier titling and printed on Saunders Mold-Made "Cream" paper. Frontispiece photograph of Auden, clutching a cat and with the inevitable cigarette in the other hand, by George Cserna. Wood engravings by Dean Bornstein. Fine. Item #8382
Ansen was Auden's Boswell and this selection has been chosen from 'four bound composition books and eighty closely-typed loose sheets as he dashed down what he remembered Auden saying.'.
Price: £110.00
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