Between the Covers

Softcover. First edition. Octavo. 533, [2]pp. Printed wrappers. Text in English, French and Italian. Covers are moderately foxed, few tiny tears to yapped edges, even tanning on spine, with small, uneven discoloration at base of spine, else a very good copy. Also present is a publisher's promotional leaflet for *Botteghe Oscure,* printing information about this publication, listing names of contributors and printing six blurbs of praise about this publication, including a four-line statement by Louise Bogan (from the *New Yorker*). An International Review of New Literature was published in twenty-five numbers (between 1948 and 1960). This issue is Signed by W. H. Auden in blue ink, beneath his printed name on page 164, the first page of his forty-seven page contribution: the first appearance of "Delia, or A Masque of Night' by Auden and Chester Kallman. [Bloomfield and Mendelson C418: the only other publication of this one-act libretto, cited by bibliographer, was as a separate offprint of Botteghe Oscure XII [Bloomfield and Mendelson C418 note]. Other contibutors include six pages of poems by [William] De Witt Snodgrass (very early in his career), and poems by W. S. Merwin, Richard Wilbur, Theodore Roethke, Robert Graves, Christopher Logue, Padraic Fallon, Elizabeth Hardwick, Weldon Kees, Paul Goodman, an essay by Andre Malraux et al.

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