Search results for: 'THOMAS, Dylan'
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THOMAS, Dylan. 18 Poems.London : 1934
First edition, first impression, of the author's first collection, a poetic association copy with the ownership inscription of Wilfrid Wilson Gibson (1878-1962), founder of Dymock Poets group and a friend of Rupert Brooke. Though Gibson was several generations older than Dylan Thomas, he outlived him by a decade. This edition was printed in an original... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 124168
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THOMAS, Dylan. New Poems.Norfolk, CN : 1943
First edition, first printing. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front pastedown, "To Lord Howard de Walden, from Dylan Thomas, November 1944". The recipient was influential Welsh arts patron Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, the 8th Baron Howard de Walden, who lived nearby Thomas at Plas Llanina, whilst Thomas was living in a coastal bungalow,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 131353
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POETRY ANTHOLOGY - THOMAS, Dylan; W. H. Auden; Archibald Macleish; Louis Macneice; Marianne Moore; Frederic Prokosch; Stephen Spender; Wallace Stevens, et al. New Poems 1942.Mount Vernon, NY : 1942
First edition, signed limited issue, one of 59 copies signed by the contributing poets, namely: Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers,... Learn More£7,500.00Stock Code: 125112
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THOMAS, Dylan. Poems.New York : 1971
First US edition, first printing, the editor Daniel Jones's own copy with the publisher's note to that effect, inscribed by him to his wife on the front free endpaper, "To Irene, with love from Dan. 23rd November 1971". Also included are a long autograph letter signed from poet Edith Sitwell to Daniel Jones, dated 22 March 1954 and concerning the music... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 140659
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THOMAS, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. One of 730 copies printed of Thomas's landmark collection, publishing the poems of "this young Welsh poet" who "has, during the last two years, attracted an unusual amount of attention with his Dionysiac verse" (jacket blurb). Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 144346
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THOMAS, Dylan. Deaths and Entrances. Poems.London : 1946
First edition, first impression, in exceptional condition, of Thomas's collection of poems including his much-loved ode to the vivacity of youth, "Fern Hill". Learn More£950.00Stock Code: 141051
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THOMAS, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems.London : 1936
First edition, first impression. One of 730 copies printed of Thomas's landmark collection, publishing the poems of "this young Welsh poet" who "has, during the last two years, attracted an unusual amount of attention with his Dionysiac verse" (from the original jacket blurb). Learn More£600.00Stock Code: 142806
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THOMAS, Dylan. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.Dent, : 1940
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 107707
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THOMAS, Dylan. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.London : 1954
A finely bound copy of Thomas's collection of autobiographical short stories, first published in 1940. Learn More£200.00Stock Code: 142717
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THOMAS, Dylan. Under Milk Wood.London : 1954
First edition in book form, first impression. Under Milk Wood was originally commissioned as a radio drama by the BBC, and was first broadcast on 25 January 1954. It was first printed in the magazine Mademoiselle in their February 1954 issue. The posthumously published work has since become one of Thomas's best known. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 144347
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THOMAS, Dylan. Under Milk Wood.London : 1954
First edition in book-form, first impression. Under Milk Wood was originally commissioned as a radio drama by the BBC, and was first broadcast on 25 January 1954. It was originally printed in the magazine Mademoiselle in their February 1954 issue. The posthumously published work has since become one of Thomas's best known. Learn More£500.00Stock Code: 139150
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THOMAS, Dylan. Under Milk Wood. A Play for Voices.London : 1954.
First edition, first impression. Learn More£1,375.00Stock Code: 113551
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GRIGSON, Geoffrey (ed.) New Verse.[London : 1933-9
A complete and near-fine run of "the most influential British poetry magazine of the 1930s", with the uncommonly found wraparound band for the W. H. Auden double-issue released in November 1937 (ODNB).
New Verse published "the finest poets of the W. H. Auden generation", such as Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, Kathleen Raine,... Learn More£475.00Stock Code: 141132
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REXROTH, Kenneth (ed.) The New British Poets.[Norfolk, Conn.] : [1949]
First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author to fellow poet Theodore Weiss and his wife Renée: "For Renée & Ted Weiss in memory of a memorable weekend - Nov 48, Kenneth Rexroth" (front free endpaper). Ted and Renée Weiss edited the Quarterly Review of Literature for nearly sixty years, publishing the works of William Carlos Williams, Wallace... Learn More£225.00Stock Code: 107186
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AMIS, Kingsley. Bright November.London : [1947]
First edition, first impression, later issue binding, of the author's first published book. The publisher R. A. Caton was an elusive one-man publisher who founded The Fortune Press, based at 12 Buckingham Palace Road, in 1924. He specialised in gay writing (several Fortune Press productions were burned after the 1934 obscenity trials), and in taking... Learn More£650.00Stock Code: 100284
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AMIS, Kingsley. Bright November.London : [1947]
First edition, first-issue binding, presentation copy inscribed in the month of publication "Best wishes from Kingsley Amis, November 1947" on the front free endpaper. Bright November was Amis's first published book.
The publisher Reginald Ashley Caton (1897-1971) was an elusive one-man publisher who founded The Fortune Press, based at 12 Buckingham... Learn More£975.00Stock Code: 139744
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GRAVES, Robert. John Kemp's Wager.Oxford : 1925
First edition, first impression, trade issue. John Kemp's Wager was published as the 11th work in the British Drama League Library of Modern British Drama.
From the library of Charles David Abbott (1900-1961), the University at Buffalo's first director of libraries, and a notable book collector and devotee of British poetry. "Abbott founded the... Learn More£125.00Stock Code: 142386
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[NEUBURG, Victor Benjamin.] Swift Wings. Songs in Sussex.Steyning : 1921
First edition, number 197 of 550 copies on antique laid paper, a notably fresh example of Neuburg's second book of pagan poetry published at his Vine Press. This copy was presented as a gift with a charmingly poetic inscription on the front free endpaper by his son, Victor Edward Neuburg (1924-1996).
This selection of Neuburg's poetry follows... Learn More£375.00Stock Code: 139457
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CAETANI, Marguerite (ed.) Botteghe oscure.Rome : 1948-60
Complete collection of the semi-annual literary journal Botteghe oscure, with the 1949 Rome issue of Volume I (Volume I was first published in 1948 in Naples). Founded by Marguerite Caetani in Rome in 1948 and named after the street on which the editorial office was located, Botteghe oscure was an explicitly international literary magazine, both in... Learn More£1,250.00Stock Code: 113365
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AMIS, Kingsley. What Became of Jane Austen and Other Questions.London : 1970
First edition, first impression, of this collection of essays by Kingsley Amis including "literary criticism, of writers as diverse and Hans Christian Andersen and Dylan Thomas and novels from Sorrell and Son to Portnoy's Complaint; articles on such topics as horror films, the use of language, the National Eisteddfod of Wales and fictional detectives;... Learn More£100.00Stock Code: 85374
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HAMNETT, Nina. Laughing Torso.London : 1932
First edition, first impression, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page "Monty and I are glad that you could read it Nina Hamnett 3 December 1932". The inscription perhaps refers to Montague Shearman junior, the barrister and art collector, jokingly implying that he has read the book for libel before publication.
Laughing... Learn More£750.00Stock Code: 138430
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STARK, Freya et al. The London Magazine.London : 1955
First edition, from the personal library of Freya Stark. This number of the London Magazine contains an article by Freya Stark, entitled "Sunrise on Olympus", in which she describes two times she saw the sunrise around Mount Olympus, once in 1939 and once after the Second World War. Her description does not shy away from the romance of the scene as... Learn More£175.00Stock Code: 127643
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ELIOT, T. S. The Waste Land.Richmond : 1923
First UK edition in book form, sole impression, one of about 460 copies hand-printed by the Woolfs, with the title label in the first state with asterisks (one of three states noted by Gallup, with no priority). This is a great association copy, with the bookplate of the novelist and playwright Richard Arthur Warren Hughes on the front pastedown.
Hughes... Learn More£8,750.00Stock Code: 145515
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BARNES, Djuna. Ryder.New York : 1928
First edition, first printing, the author's own copy of her autobiographical first novel, inscribed on the front free endpaper, "Property of Djuna Barnes".
Ryder is "a comical family history illustrated by the author, which describes their unusual living arrangements, Barnes's early life on the Huntington farm, and the London literary salon... Learn More£1,750.00Stock Code: 145275
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GWYNNE, Horace, pseud. of James Augustus St John. Abdallah; an Oriental Poem: in Three Cantos.London : 1824
First and sole edition of this very scarce collection of verse by the flourishingly named James Augustus St John, born James John (1795-1875), the son of a shoemaker, in what would become Dylan's Thomas stamping ground of Laugharne, Carmarthenshire. Abdallah is an interesting contribution to the Romantic oriental verse epic, a form popularisd by Tom... Learn More£450.00Stock Code: 141341
