Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas. (PLUS UNCORRECTED PROOF)

First Edition (first printing). 8vo. 420pp. Black cloth lettered in gold at the spine and with the publisher's vibrant purple top edge stain. A touch of very light bruising to the base of the backstrip, else a fine copy in lightly dust soiled non-price-clipped dust wrapper, with a tiny hint of chafing to the spine ends and corner tips. A three-page introduction and chronology precedes hundreds of Thomas' letters, including his earliest surviving correspondence, the recipients including Graham Greene, Lawrence Durrell, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Edward Marsh, Stephen Spender, John Davenport, Henry Treece and others. Supplied together with an uncorrected proof copy of the first edition bound in the publisher's original card wrappers. Top edge spotted. Very good in the original over-sized proof dust wrapper, rubbed and creased at the overlapping upper edge.