W.H. Auden's copies

W.H. Auden's copies, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper of The Tower, and with a bookseller's note to that effect on the front free endpaper of The Winding Stair.

First editions, first impressions; 2 vols 8vo; Auden's ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of The Tower, slight age-toning, minor spotting and offsetting to prelims and endpapers, occasional finger-soiling, The Winding Stair lacking 2 leaves (pp.75-78); publisher's green cloth with designs by T. Sturge Moore in gilt and in blind respectively, cloth slightly marked and rubbed, else very good.