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Auden, W. H.
For the Time Being.
Publisher: Faber & Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1945
Stock Code: 10889
First edition, second impression. Octavo, pp., 124. Publisher’s tan cloth with blue titles to spine in an unclipped pictorial jacket. Gift inscription from Tony Quayle to Dame Edith Evans to front free endpaper. Jacket shows several small areas of loss particularly to upper edge and spine tips. A near fine book in very good jacket. This collection of Auden’s poems includes commentary on Shakspeare’s The Tempest and is from the library of actress Dame Edith Evans, with a gift inscription from fellow actor, theatre director and long-time collaborator, Tony Q (Anthony Quayle), dated Christmas 1945. £25.00