AUDEN, W.H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 :

PAUL BUNYAN : THE LIBRETTO OF THE OPERETTA BY BENJAMIN BRITTEN.

London : Faber & Faber, (1988). First hardback edition. First published in wraps in 1976, but here with Auden's 1941 New York Times article and a long essay by Donald Mitchell, including excerpts from the original correspondence, etc. Post 8vo. viii,150,[ii]pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original pale grey boards, ruled and lettered on spine in red; very good indeed in the original black, grey and white dust-jacket, with an illustration in red, green on upper panel. From the collection of the late Barry Bloomfield, Auden's bibliographer.

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