CITY WITHOUT WALLS And Other Poems.

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original black cloth with gilt titling to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh. The contents are clean and throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with lightly rubbed and creased dustwrapper that is without fading, loss or tears. Not price clipped (20s / £1.00 net to the front flap and a small label with a Scandanavian bookseller's price 'Kr 17.70' above).

A collection of Auden's shorter poems and his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's 'Mother Courage and Her Children'. Several poems included in this volume had previously appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Quest, Delos, Encounter, and The London Magazine.