The Age of Anxiety: A Baroque Eclogue
New York: Random House, 1947.
First edition, first printing preceding the British edition. Signed by W. H. Auden on the title page "with best wishes" in slightly watery blue ink. [viii], 138 pp. Bound in publisher's dark teal cloth with spine blocked and lettered in gilt and brown; brown top stain. Fine in a Very Good+ price-clipped dust jacket with light chipping to ends, tear to rear joint with associated small patch of loss. Auden's Pulitzer Prize-winning book-length poem, a blend of modern language and traditional forms influenced by Carl Jung's work Psychological Types; uncommon signed. Bloomfield A29a.
Price: $4,000
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