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Literature, 20th Century Authors, Twelve Volumes. Including the following titles: W.H. Auden's Poems, London: Faber & Faber, 1930, first edition, quarto, soft covers; Auden's The Double Man, New York: Random House, 1941, first printing, review copy, with the dust jacket; Richard Yates's Revolutionary Road, Boston: Little, Brown, & Co., an Atlantic Monthly Press book, 1961, first edition, with the dust jacket; Robinson Jeffers' Such Counsels You Gave to Me & Other Poems, New York: Random House, 1937, limited edition, one of 300 copies signed by Jeffers on the limitation page, in a damaged slipcase; William Carlos Williams's The Build-up, New York: Random House, 1952, first printing, in a chipped dust jacket; first editions of the following William Faulkner novels, in dust jackets: Intruder in the Dust; A Fable; The Town; and Flags in the Dust, together with a later printer of Sanctuary; and Henry James's The Golden Bowl, New York: Scribner's, the New York Edition, (later),in two volumes, in dust jackets. (12)
Estimate $100-200
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Henry James, Richard Yates, Brown & Co., William Carlos Williams, William Faulkner, LondonJohn Dorfman
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