THOMAS (Dylan).

Collected Poems. 1934-1952.

ONE OF ONLY 65 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR

Frontispiece portrait of the author after Augustus John. First edition, one of 65 copies signed by the author on mould-made paper, of which 60 were for sale. 8vo., original dark blue crushed morocco, spine lettered in gilt, top edge in gilt. London, J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1952.

£10,000.00

The definitive lifetime edition of the collected poems of Dylan Thomas - one of only sixty-five copies of the signed limited edition. Published only a year before Thomas’s death, the collection brings together all but one of the poems from his three previous volumes of poetry, some of which were revised for this publication, with the addition of six poems written since 1946.

An absolutely fine copy, bought new by the previous owner, internally very clean without any thumbing or toning to paper stock, the binding virtually unworn and as new. Extremely scarce in such exemplary condition. With the remains of the original plain cellophane protective wrapper, housed in a slightly later folding box.

Rolph, B. 17.

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