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Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep and other poems by Dylan Thomas. New Directions, New York, NY, 1952.
Price: US$99.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition, first printing limited to 5000 copies. Photo portrait tipped onto title page as issued. A good copy only. There is a 1/2" chip lacking at the spine head, slight damp stain to one cover corner, a small paint dot to the front board and light general wear to the binding. Very slight aging to the pages but the contents remain unmarked and tightly bound.
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. IN COUNTRY SLEEP. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue textured, papered boards, frist 3/4" repaired at top edge, brick colored titles, edges lightly rubbed, previous owners signature, a lovely clean tight copy. Scarce. ; 9" x 6"; 34pp. pages
Seller: Luis Porretta Fine Arts, Nanaimo, BC, Canada
Dylan Thomas. IN COUNTRY SLEEP. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Blue paper boards. First American edition, 1952. Title pg with tipped in photo of Thomas. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, one tiny spot of paper on upper front, corners and spine ends worn. Binding tight. PO's nameon ffep and again on acknowledgements pg. Text unmarked. DJ is GOOD ; split at rear spine fold, not clipped ($2.00) clean but toned, spine more so. Edges have some mild chips. In a new Mylar wrapper. Poet. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas. In Country Sleep. New Directions, 1952.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue boards in cream color jacket. Not clipped, but a bit of edgewear, and a tear on spine, eliminating the letter 'D' from the author's name. Book contains tipped-in photo portrait of Thomas on title page. Trivial edgewear and traces of foxing, but a square, clean copy of the first edition (5,000 copies).
Seller: A Cappella Books, Inc., Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas. In Country Sleep. New Directions, 1952.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo, blue cloth with red titles, 34pp. First edition with 1952 copyright date and pasted photo plate of Thomas to title page. Boards slightly curled inwards from a resulting water incursion, thus pages show a light ripple. Unclipped dust jacket (2.00) shows mild rubbing to panels and some loss to front panel at lower corner. Firmly bound with clean text. This volume contains the first publication of Thomass most famous poem Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night, along with five other poems. A handsome copy less defects, preserved in mylar.
Seller: Heaven Haven Books, Bellevue, KY, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas. In Country Sleep And Other Poems. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$256.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American edition hardback, 1952, with unclipped jacket. In overall very good used condition in a good dust jacket with minor signs of age, handling and storage - dust jacket quite tanned to spine and edges (now protected); boards slightly tanned to edges. Binding tight and appears little read. Internally clean, no annotation or inscriptions; toning to page-ends but text and tipped-in photographic portrait to title page bright and clear throughout. Photographs available. Not an old library book.
Seller: Hall of Books, Shropshire, United Kingdom
Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.00), generally toned, small chips at the head and foot of the spine, closed tears at the top edge near the spine. Green paper with red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound, gift inscription on the front endpaper, portrait of Thomas by Marion Morehouse tipped-in on the title page. A collection of six of poems by the Welsh poet, including "Do not go gentle into that good night."
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, Woodstock, IL, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep and Other Poems. A New Directions Book, New York, 1952.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 34pp. Octavo [22 cm] Green paper over boards with the title and author in brown ink on the spine and front board. Very minor wear at the spine ends and bottom fore-edge corners of the covers. With Marion Morehouse tipped-in author photo on title page. The dust jacket is partially torn in half at the spine, is lightly chipped along the edges and folds, and has a very small loss from the head of the spine and the surrounding areas of the panels. Dylan Thomas is considered to be one of the greatest Welsh poets of all time. A book containing six of the poet's most accomplished works- "Over Sir John's Hill"; "Poem on His Birthday"; "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night"; "Lament"; "In the White Giant's Thigh"; "In Country Sleep."
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
THOMAS, DYLAN.. In Country Sleep. New York: New Directions, 1952, 1952.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Fine in a very good dust jacket with minor wear and a chip at the foot of the spine slightly affecting one letter of the title. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan.. In Country Sleep and Other Poems.. New Directions,, NY:, 1952.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (5,000 copies). Photographic image of the author affixed to title page. Offsetting to an interior page where a newspaper article had been laid in, else very good in a very good (long closed edge tear on rear panel, a few small chips, age darkened) dust jacket.; 34 pages
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB, Springfield, MA, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan. In Country Sleep. New Directions, (New York), 1952.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American edition. Title page with tipped in portrait of Thomas, as issued. Light toning at gutters of endpapers, tiny nick on the bottom corner of front board, near fine in a very good dust jacket with toning, a few nicks and tears, and a small stain on the front panel. One of five thousand copies.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. In country sleep. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$468.75 + shipping
Description: First American trade edition, slim 8vo, pp. 34, [2]; frontispiece portrait on title page; spine a bit dull, else a very good copy. From the library of Kim Merker. Dylan Thomas's last book including his famous poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night." Inscribed to Kim Merker by "Phyllis." "Bon voyage et bon chance, mais n'oublie pas de revenir 4-?-52."
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$609.31 + shipping
Description: A first edition, first printing published by New Directions in 1952. A near fine book without inscriptions. In a very good unclipped wrapper with some edgewear - internal paper reinforcements evident. Includes the title poem; "Over Sir John Hill"; "Poem On His Birthday"; "Lament"; "In the White Giant's Thigh"; and perhaps his most famous poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."
Seller: John Atkinson Books ABA ILAB PBFA, Harrogate, United Kingdom
THOMAS, DYLAN.. In Country Sleep. New York: New Directions, 1952, 1952.
Price: US$875.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Fine in a dust jacket with a few tiny tears. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.
Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First American trade edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original paper covered boards lettered in crimson, image if Dylan Thomas tipped in at title page. Near Fine with slight wear to tips, former owner name and date to front free endpaper. In a Near Fine unclipped dust jacket with toning and light edge wear, a faint but long horizontal indentation across the bottom of the front panel. The final book of the Welsh poet's published during his lifetime, with the classic poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Good Night."
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan.. In Country Sleep.. New Directions, [New York], 1952.
Price: US$7500.00 + shipping
Description: 34 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in slipcase with printed paper label. First edition; No. 68 of 100 copies signed by Dylan Thomas. A fine copy in a bright, fresh slipcase which is missing a 3/4" section of the top, and is partially cracked at one bottom joint.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep.. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$9800.00 + shipping
Description: Signed limited edition, one of 100 copies of this collection of poems, including the first book appearance of "Do not go gentle into that good night," published the year before his death, Octavo, original cloth. Signed by Dylan Thomas. Fine in a fine slipcase. An exceptional example. Dylan Thomasâ last collection of new poetry includes âPoem on His Birthday,â âDo Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,â âLamentâ and âIn Country Sleep.â Interviewed just before the bookâs publication, Thomas said, âIâve never seen what a poem really looks like. But I keep tryingâ (Ferris, 274). He died the following year.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 1st trade edition (there was also a limited edition of 100 copies), inscribed by Thomas. Original greenish-blue boards, corners lightly pressed, else fine, in a jacket with minimal wear to the extremities and some general toning, else very good. Custom ¼ morocco slip case. Thomas's most famous single poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (pp. 18-19), first appears in this book.
Seller: Biblioctopus, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. In Country Sleep.. New Directions, New York, 1952.
Price: US$12500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of this collection of poems, including the first book appearance of "Do not go gentle into that good night." Octavo, original cloth. Signed and dated by the author in the year of publication on the front free endpaper, "Dylan Thomas 1952." Fine in a very good dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco clamshell box made by the Harcourt Bindery. Rare and desirable signed as Thomas passed away one year after the publication. Dylan Thomasâ last collection of new poetry includes âPoem on His Birthday,â âDo Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,â âLamentâ and âIn Country Sleep.â Interviewed just before the bookâs publication, Thomas said, âIâve never seen what a poem really looks like. But I keep tryingâ (Ferris, 274). He died the following year.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.