Dylan Thomas

A group of six volumes, comprising:

THOMAS, Dylan (1914-1953). Twenty-Six Poems. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1949.
First edition, one of 150 copies signed by the author, this being number 11 of 50 copies reserved for the UK. Rolph B13(a). Quarto (295 x 200mm). Original cloth-backed patterned paper boards, printed spine label; publisher’s card slipcase; custom green morocco-backed box. Provenance: Coman Leavenworth (American poet who beat Allen Ginsberg to the award of 'Poet Most Likely to Succeed' at Columbia University; bookplate).

– In Country Sleep. New York: New Directions, 1952.
First edition, signed by the author. Considered one of his finest volumes of poetry, it includes the first appearance in book form of ‘Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night.’ Rolph B15. Octavo. Photographic portrait by Marion Morehouse mounted on title-page. Original blue-green printed boards; original printed dust jacket (spine ends with tiny chips, trivial nicks at edges); housed in a custom green morocco-backed box.

– Two Epigrams of Fealty. [Together with:] Galsworthy & Gawsworth. [London:] Cave de France, 1953.
Rare first editions, each number 27 of 30 privately printed memorial copies. Together 2 volumes, small quarto. Each a single printed sheet folded twice; housed in a green cloth chemise and slipcase.

– Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1940.
First edition of the author’s first novel in the dust-jacket. Rolph B6. Octavo. Original green cloth, spine lettered in silver, top edge stained red (endpapers lightly browned); original printed dust-jacket (spine lightly faded and spine ends just frayed, a few small nicks, a few spots on lower panel). Provenance: R. G. Keys (ownership inscription dated 1948 on endpaper).

– The Doctor and the Devils. London: J. M. Dent & Sons Limited, 1953.
First edition. Rolph B19. (Edges faintly spotted.) Octavo. Original red cloth, spine lettered in gilt (spine ends a little sunned and rubbed); original dust-jacket (spine ends frayed and nicked, a few repaired tears and creases).