TWENTY-FIVE POEMS BY DYLAN THOMAS 1936 FIRST EDITION
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[THOMAS, DYLAN]. Twenty-Five Poems. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1936.
First edition, first printing with "First Published 1936" on the copyright page. Hardback with dust jacket. Octavo (190 x 135 x 8 mm). Pp. vii, 47, (1). English text. Printed at the Temple Press. Bound in publishers original grey paper-covered boards with blue spine titles. Supplied in original dust jacket. Top edge tinted blue. Initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Condition: GOOD to VERY GOOD. Binding tight and secure, the covers largely clean with some very minor traces of handling. Interior very well-preserved, some light browning to endpapers. Small and neat previous owner name to front endpaper. The original dust jacket has some wear and splits to the spine. Scarce.
Notes: TRUE FIRST EDITION with the original and rare first issued dust wrapper with the publisher's 2/6 net price present on the front flap. Only 730 copies of this first impression were printed. Rolph B3; Connolly 100, 78b. Thomas' second book includes twenty-four poems plus the ten sonnet sequence beginning with "Altarwise by owl-light in the halfway-house". The other poems include "A grief ago," "The hand that signed the paper felled a city," "Should lanterns shine, the holy face," "I have longed to move away," "And death shall have no dominion".