Letters from Iceland

1937, Auden & MacNeice's 30s entertaining classic in verse and prose

Author

W H Auden, and Louis MacNeice

Publisher

Faber & Faber, London, 1937

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback, bound in green cloth with printed titling to spine. 22 × 13.5cm, 268pp + map.

This highly amusing and unorthodox travel book resulted from a light-hearted summer journey by the young poets Auden and MacNeice in 1936. Their letters home, in verse and prose, are full of private jokes and irreverent comments about people, politics, literature and ideas. Letters from Iceland is one of the most entertaining books in modern literature; from Auden's 'Letter to Lord Byron' and MacNeice's 'Eclogue', to the mischief and fun of their joint 'Last Will and Testament'.

Condition

A good reading copy. The green cloth is rubbed, frayed and a little dulled. The contents are in better condition, remaining in strong readable order. A previous owner has added his name to the ffep, "Philip C Gibbons, at The New Inn, Cerne Abbas, Dorset, August 1938".

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