AUDEN, Wystan Hugh, and Louis MACNEICE.
Letters from Iceland.
London, Faber & Faber, [1937].
8vo, pp. 268, with a folding map of Iceland and photographic illustrations by Auden; publisher’s green cloth, jacket printed in red and black; a near-fine copy in a good price-clipped jacket (edges a little worn); bookplate of D. G. Bridson.
£150
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First edition. Was it perhaps Auden and MacNeice’s journey to Iceland that inspired Bridson’s own visit to the country in 1939?
Bloomfield and Mendelson A15.
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