Richards Ceri Illustrator (5 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Third impression. Leather bound hardcover in Very Good condition. Carefully packaged to avoid damage in shipping.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Folio Society edition with single date and no additional printings. A beautiful new edition with gorgeous lithograph by Richards. Pristine, clean and unmarked in the fine original slipcase that has minor light cracking to small areas of one edge.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In shrink wrap.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Previous owner's name in pencil on front endpaper. Ink number "71" on front endpaper. ; An edition of 495 copies. [4 (blank)], [2 (title leaf)], 27, [2], [7 (blank)] pages. Black leather boards. Red leather title label at corner of front board, with gilt lettering and double gilt ruled border to label. Page dimensions: 293 x 209mm. Colour illustrations by Ceri Richards. Composed in Monotype Centaur Type designed by Bruce Rogers.

FIRST EDITION, 168/180 COPIES, 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 black buckram-backed illustrated boards, these and the slipcase (yellow cloth and boards) with reproductions of two hand-drawn dustjacket designs by Richards, backstrip lettered in gilt, a couple of very faint marks to slipcase, very good. 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.