The age of anxiety : a baroque eclogue / W. H. Auden.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Thomas Lask Poetry Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Myron A. and Anne Jaffe Portenar Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anxiety--Poetry.

Anxiety.

Civilization, Modern--20th century--Poetry.

Civilization, Modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Lask, Thomas (donor)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Portenar, Myron A. (donor) (Portenar Collection copy)

Portenar, Anne Jaffe (donor) (Portenar Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered pages, 3-138 pages ; 19 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Random House, c1946, 1947.

Notes:

With a half-title.

"First printing".

Bound in dark bluish green cloth lettered across the spine in gold.

Published 11 July 1947 in an impression of 3,500 copies at $2.50 and reprinted in August 1947 (3,000 copies), October 1947 (1,500 copies), June 1948 (1,000 copies), August 1949 (1,000 copies), September 1951 (726 copies), May 1953 (1,000 copies), November 1956 (1,000 copies), May 1960 (1,000 copies), October 1962 (1,050 copies), October 1966 (1,000 copies), and December 1967 (1,500 copies).--Cf. Bloomfield.

"The second impression extensively revises and corrects the text and drops, unintentionally, line 25 on p. 18."--Cf. Bloomfield.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Portenar Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Dr. Myron Portenar and Anne Jaffe Portenar.

Portenar Collection copy is twelfth printing. Retains dust jacket.

Cited in:

Bloomfield & Mendelson. W.H. Auden (2nd ed.), A29

OCLC:

293737