Auden, W[ystan] H[ugh]. ORIGINAL SIGNED CONTRACT with the New American Library.
$1,500.00
New York: December 11, 1962. Seven folio pages folded and stapled on a printed cardboard cover. Auden contributes an introduction to "The Protestant Mystics," which was selected and edited by Anne Freemantle. Bloomfield & Mendelson B89. Both authors have signed the contract and each has initialled it 13 times. Additionally, Auden's intimate companion, Chester Kallman, has signed the document as a witness. Laid in is a letter to Auden from his literary agents, Curtis Brown. Singular and near fine.