It's my birthday!

... on May the second. Okay, it's still nearly two months away, but here's a list of books I'd be very glad to receive on that joyous day.

1. The Penguin book of Spanish Civil War verse.
2. The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso. Catalogue for the excellent show at the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid.
3. Postwar: a history of Europe since 1945, which was recommended to me by someone or other.
4. Twentieth century German poetry: an anthology. Edited by Michael Hofmann. The long US one, not the very short Faber paperback.
5. The biography of Karl Marx by Francis Wheen
6. The English Auden