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Dylan Thomas. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 183 pages, with bibliography of Thomas's works up to 1946. Introduction by John L. Sweeney. Frontispiece from portrait by Augustus John. Forty-seven poems, six stories, two of which are from "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog". 8vo, green cloth with black inset for faded title lettering on spine, red topstain, boards soiled, a bit splotched, and sunned, especially the spine; corners worn and/or bumped, edges and end-papers age-tanned, darker tan stains on p. xxii-xxiii (from newspaper clipping laid in) and p. 96 at bottom corner and reaching through to a couple more pages (coffee stain), foxing to frontispiece plate and adjacent pages, sticker from the Grolier Book Shop affixed to ffep. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Feb. 1948 written on front pastedown, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages. Laid-in clipping from TLS of March 2, 1984 - review by Frances Morris of DT's The Collected Stories.
Seller: Berthoff Books, Harpers Ferry, WV, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. Dylan Thomas Selected Writings. New Directions, New York, NY, 1946.
Price: US$11.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Book Condition: Good+. Jacket Condition: No Jacket. New Directions, New York, NY 1946. First Edition. 1st Printing. 184 pages. Moderate general wear. Size: 8.4 x 5.6 x .9. Poetry::1900-1974 6408
Seller: BookScene, Hull, MA, U.S.A.
Sweeney, John L. & Thomas, Dylan. SELECTED WRITINGS OF DYLAN THOMAS. New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New Directions, 1946, 8vo, 184 pages. Some edgewear to jacket with spine a little faded, else book and jacket very good. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Cape Cod Booksellers, Yarmouth, MA, U.S.A.
[Thomas, Dylan]. Dylan Thomas: Selected Writings.. New Directions [1946], 1946.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Book plate. ; 8vo; vii, 184 pages
Seller: Janet & Henry Hurley, Westmoreland, NH, U.S.A.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In red jacket over red cloth, 8vo, 184pp. (light shelfwear, rubbing and light fading to jacket extremities) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas, intro by John L. Sweeney. SELECTED WRITINGS. New Directions, New York, 1946.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 8 in. Green cloth boards. No subsequent printing dates stated. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; no wear, covers extremely clean, a touch toned at edges. BInding tight and text unmarked. PO's initials on front pastedown. DJ is GOOD+ ; not price-clipped ($3.50) cleamn but spine is very sunned, edges chipped, 3 closed tears, some loss to spine ends. In a new Mylar wrapper. Poetry. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. New Directions Books, 1946.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Good Hardcover, no dustjacket 1946 (introduction by John L. Sweeney) first edition slight fading to topedge
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas, John L. Sweeney. SELECTED WRITINGS. New York: New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8-1/2 x 5-1/2 inches, xxiii, 184 pages. Publisher's green cloth. Condition is GOOD, with cloth soiled, spine faded, and browned throughout, some internal foxing. Perhaps a pre-publication or review copy, stamped "Publication Date November 20, 1946." poetry, stacks
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. Selected Writings (New directions series of selected writings). New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$23.64 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1946. Unknown Binding. Fine in fine cloth covers, lacking dust wrapper. Covers showing light age and shelf wear. Previous owner's name to ffep. Light pencil marginalia for one poem. Endpapers toned else lightly toned, text is crisp and remains a fine copy. . . . .
Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland
Dylan Thomas. THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DYLAN THOMAS. New Directions, New York, 1946.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 9 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers clean, a little sunned, mild shelf wear. BInding tight. PO's name on ffep, text unmarked. DJ is GOOD+ ; clean, not clipped, spine quite sunned, loss to spine head, edges chipped. Poet. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. Selected Writings. New Directions Book, New York, 1946.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Description: End papers and last pages show some browning, apparently related to the paper selected for the end papers.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$34.50 + shipping
Description: Introduction by John Sweeney. 184 pages. Poetry and stories. Pages good condition, clean. Foredges and endpapers lightly yellowed. Previous owner's name top of ffep. Red top edges. Green cloth, black label with gilt title at head of spine. Edges, corners and boards lightly worn. VG-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Thomas, Dylan. Selected Writings. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1946.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition, published by New Directions in 1946. Bound in green cloth. A near fine copy of the book with a bit of toning to the green cloth edges in a very good dust jacket with fading to the spine and chipping to the edges.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover in Good+ condition in a good dust jacket, 8vo, pages: xxiii,184. Blue-green cloth with gild-on-black titles on spine, top edge tinted red, black-and-white frontis portrait. Light wear, end-papers tanned, front hinge cracking, 2 small marginal marks (page x), dust jacket edge-worn and chipped, not price clipped ($3.50), stapled pamphlet laid in "Conversation about Christmas", by Dylan Thomas, 1954; Bookseller accession no.: SP402. Also includes "Conversation About Christmas", 1954, printed for the friends of J. Laughlin, 8 pp in wrappers with 2 staples.
Seller: Ulysses Books, Michael L. Muilenberg, Bookseller, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. New Directions, Norfolk, 1946.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Top edges of boards very slightly faded, prev. owner's name on ffep, jacket has fading to top and fore edges, spine is very sunned so title no longer appears, bottom corners chipped, top edge has significantly more chipping and some creases as well, small pucture mark on front panel
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas. Dylan Thomas Selected Writings. New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$50.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Your purchase helps support Sri Lankan Children's Charity 'The Rainbow Centre'. Ex-library, so some stamps and wear, but in good overall condition. Our donations to The Rainbow Centre have helped provide an education and a safe haven to hundreds of children who live in appalling conditions.
Seller: Phatpocket Limited, Waltham Abbey, HERTS, United Kingdom
THOMAS, Dylan. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. A New Directions Book, 1946.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: New Directions; New York, 1946. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. A Good, green cloth binding with gilt lettering on spine, binding sturdy and intact, some crimping to spine edges, bit of sunning along board and spine edges, heavily discolored pastedowns and endpapers, some age toning to pages, small bookstore sticker bottom rear pastedown, top text block edge stained red with some fading and a couple of small moisture stains, slightly bowed boards, mild spine fade, in a Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, bit of edge/corner wear, few small tears and chips along edges, heavy spine fade, some scattered foxing to panels/flaps and verso, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A good and overall clean copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 183pp., bibliography. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.
Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. The Selected Writings. New Directions, Norfolk, Conn., 1946.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The first edition, published by New Directions in 1946. A fine copy of the book in a very good dust jacket with chipping along the top edge and fading to the spine.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. A New Directions Book, (New York), 1946.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue binding [Rolph B11; 4000 copies printed]. Introduction by John L. Sweeney. Green cloth with black and gilt spine title. Endpapers are quite tanned (as usual), with offset tanning on half-title page and final text leaf (as usual), rear cover of first-issue binding has a one-inch (faint) damp stain, else a very good copy, with the binding bright, text otherwise fresh and clean, in good, first issue dust jacket (with front panel stating "Lowry" at lower corner, and with correct publisher's address "500 Fifth Ave." on rear panel). The dust jacket has moderate fading and wear on spine, small chip at crown (slightly touching printed lettering), front panel is faded, with wear and few small chips at extremities (along fore-edge and also along edge of spine), rear panel has a few small chips, with one-inch, nicked tear, and few spots of light dampstaining (visible on unprinted verso).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. A New Directions Book, (New York), 1946.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue binding [Rolph B11; 4000 copies printed]. Introduction by John L. Sweeney. Green cloth with black and gilt spine title. Endpapers are quite tanned (as usual), spotting and uneven toning on spine, boards slightly bowed, very good in an about very good, first issue dust jacket (with front panel stating "Lowry" at lower corner, and with correct publisher's address "500 Fifth Ave." on rear panel). The dust jacket has a bit of loss at the crown (affecting text), several chips and tears, and a few small abrasions.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DYLAN THOMAS. New Directions, New York, 1946.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very slight wear & chipping to DJ, with spine faded; Includes 'I see the boys of summer in their ruin' and twenty-seven others; 8vo; 184 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan. Selected Writings.. New Directions [1946], [New York], 1946.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, later printing. Octavo. xiii, [1], 185 pp. Publisher's rose cloth with black spine label lettered in gilt. Light sunning to spine. Very good.With Caroline Newton's Blake bookplate.
Seller: Nat DesMarais Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DYLAN THOMAS. New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$87.00 + shipping
Description: THE SELECTED WRITINGS OF DYLAN THOMAS, New Directions, 1946, lst ed., near fine in lightly worn, chipped and soiled dust-wrapper.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. Selected Writings. Introduction by John L. Sweeney. New Directions, New York, 1946.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue with New Directions address of "500 Fifth Ave." (Lowry's name disappears from later dust jackets). Portrait of Thomas by Augustus John opposite p. ix. xxiii, 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Rolph B11. Provenance: Carol Z. Rothkopf Teal green cloth, gilt titles blocked in black on spine. Endpapers and first and last leaves tone. Near fine, in good unclipped dust jacket by Lowry (spine panel faded, ends chipped) Portrait of Thomas by Augustus John opposite p. ix. xxiii, 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, first issue with New Directions address of "500 Fifth Ave." (Lowry's name disappears from later dust jackets).
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
THOMAS Dylan. Selected Writings. Introduced by John L. Sweeney. , 1946.
Price: US$1526.43 + shipping
Description: Portrait by Augustus John preceding introduction. 8vo., rebound in half green morocco, lettered in gilt. New York, New Directions. Inscribed on the original front blank: ?Dylan Thomas, Berkeley 1950? Thomas had undertaken a tour of the west coast in 1950, visiting Berkeley in early April. With the ownership signature of William Eshelman, a Californian pubisher and librarian who was a close friend of William Everson. A fine copy.
Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom
Thomas, Dylan. The Selected Writings. New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$4500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: 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. With a Note from Dylan Thomas. 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.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. The Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. New Directions, 1946.
Price: US$6000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Abyssbooks, Crestone, CO, U.S.A.