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Poems by W.H. Auden : Look, stranger!
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR6001.U4 L6 1936
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Penn Provenance:
- Lask, Thomas (donor)
- Physical Description:
- 68 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition.].
- Other Title:
- Look, stranger!
- Place of Publication:
- London : Faber & Faber Limited, MCMXXXVI [1936]
- Notes:
- With a half-title.
- P. 51 is signed D2.
- Bound in light grey cloth and lettered down the spine in gold.
- Published 22 October 1936 in an impression of 2,350 copies at 5/- and reprinted December 1936 (2,000 copies), November 1939 (1,500 copies), May 1945 (646 copies), and April 1946 (1,000 copies). Out of print in March 1956.--Cf. Bloomfield.
- "Auden wrote to Bennett Cerf ... 'As regards the latter [Look stranger!]. Faber invented the bloody title while I was away without telling me ... Will you please call the American edition 'On this island'. In the same letter Auden noted the following misprints in the Faber edition: IX, stanza 5, line 6 for 'dream' read 'room'; XVIII, stanza 6, line 3, for 'could only' read 'can only'."--Cf. Bloomfield.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has label W. Heffer & Son, Ltd., Booksellers, Cambridge, Eng.
- Cited in:
- Bloomfield & Mendelson. W.H. Auden (2nd ed.), A13a
- OCLC:
- 688175
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