Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas. With an Introduction by Richard Burns.. This item is unavailable.Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas. With an Introduction by Richard Burns.

FIRST EDITION, a facsimile of the Collected Poems 1934-1952 printed on Glastonbury Antique Laid paper and decorated with line-drawings throughout by Ceri Richards, totalling 42 in number, and including Augustus John's portrait of Thomas present in the original edition, pp. xvi, ix, 169, [1], crown 8vo, original dark grey boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, dustjacket to a Richards design, near fine. In November 1953 a few hours before the death of Dylan Thomas in New York the Welsh artist Ceri Richards made a series of forty drawings in his copy of Thomas's 'Collected Poems'; a very worthwhile publication. [With:] The order of service and invitation for Ceri Richards' Memorial Service at St James's Church, Piccadilly in December 1971 laid in, along with a newspaper clipping referring to it.