Dylan 18 Poems. London [ The Favil Press for ] The Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop. 1934. [ with ] THOMAS, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems.

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‘And Death Shall Have No Dominion’ THOMAS, Dylan 18 Poems. London [ The Favil Press for ] The Sunday Referee and The Parton Bookshop. 1934. [ with ] THOMAS, Dylan. Twenty-Five Poems. [ Letchworth: Temple Press for ] London: J.M. Dent . 1936. 18 Poems : 8vo. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gilt, lacking the dustwrapper; pp. 36, [4]; corners and extremities slightly worn, small chips to three of four corners and head of spine; light spotting to endpapers and half-title, a few isolated marginal spots throughout; a very good copy. Twenty-Five Poems : 8vo. Original grey boards, sympathetically in pale blue cloth, spine lettered in dark blue in imitation of the original, endpapers and pastedowns renewed, lacking the dust-jacket; pp. vii, [1 (blank)], 47, [1]; light rubbing to edges and extremities, a few marks to boards; a very good copy; presentation inscription to Aubrey Douglas-Smith, dated January 1938 to original front flyleaf. Both volumes housed in an emerald-green, cloth-covered solander box lettered in gilt to front panel. First edition, first issue of Dylan Thomas’s debut, 18 Poems, together with a second impression of its successor, Twenty-Five Poems, the latter presented by the author to Aubrey Douglas-Smith. 18 Poems , Thomas’s first book , followed a circuitous route to publication. Leaving the Swansea school where his father taught in 1931, aged sixteen — ‘an undistinguished pupil’ ( ODNB ) — he found work at the local evening newspaper, contributing on liter

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