Selected Writings by Thomas Dylan, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A VG copy of the first edition in like mylar protected jacket with fading to spine and chipping to spine ends. Previous owner's bookplate affixed to inside front cover and signature on front fly leaf. Thomas' signature on title page. First state with "500 Fifth Avenue" on copyright page. Scarce with signature. Photos on request. Signed by Author(s).

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: dj. 1st Edition. First edition, second issue with redesigned title page and later New Directions address, "333 Sixth Ave." on copyright page. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas by Augustus John opposite p. ix. xxiii, 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A.N.s. of Dylan Thomas, a presentation to Carol Louise Zeman dated September 1st, 1950, laid in. The note is on stationery of the Ritz Hotel, where Marguerite and Louis Cohn usually stayed when they were in London. They were proprietors of House of Books, early specialist dealers in modern literature and publishers of a series of signed books. Their acquaintances included T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost among numerous others. Carol Zeman (later Rothkopf) was Marguerite's niece. Rolph B11. Provenance: Margie Cohn; Carol Z. Rothkopf Red cloth, gilt titles blocked in black on spine. Near fine in very good original unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, small loss at head) Frontispiece portrait of Thomas by Augustus John opposite p. ix. xxiii, 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, second issue with redesigned title page and later New Directions address, "333 Sixth Ave." on copyright page. Signed.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, signed by Dylan Thomas on the front free endpaper. Likely second issue with publisher's address of "333 Sixth Avenue" on copyright page instead of "500 Fifth Avenue," as New Directions moved to 333 Sixth Avenue after 1946 and by 1953. Bound in publisher's rose cloth with gilt spine letters blocked in black. Dust jacket with earlier Fifth Avenue address and with "Lowry" on the bottom corner of the front panel. It is assumed, though not certain that this would be the first issue of the dust jacket, and that the first issue cloth is green. Very Good with fading to spine, trivial foxing to endsheets. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with spine fading, soiling, toning, edge wear and a short split started at the bottom of the front flap fold. Rolph B11.