Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Dylan Thomas. The World I Breathe. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$97.23 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A little shelf wear to red cloth hardcover. Owner stamp and name and address on inside front cover. Two tape marks on front free end paper, and two tape marks on rear end paper. Pages are starting to tan. Otherwise a tight, unmarked book. 183 pp. -- One of 700 copies published November 1939
Seller: The Bookseller, Edmonton, AB, Canada
Thomas, Dylan. The World I Breathe. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. 700 copies. 183pp. Binder's glue showing through at both inner hinges, else very good. Lacking dust jacket.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas. The World I Breathe. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1939. A VG+ copy of Thomas's first book published in the U.S., in a letterpress limited edition of 700 copies. This binding has ten lightly faded gilt stars, five stars on each side of the poet's name on the spine. There are no internal markings other than former owner's name and date. Printed at the Walpole Printing Office. Lacking the dust wrapper. Includes selections from Thomas's first three books (18 Poems, 1934; Twenty-Five Poems, 1936; and The Map of Love, 1939) plus 11 short prose pieces. From the personal library of respected Russian-American scholar and Smith College professor Helen Muchnic (1903-2000).
Seller: White Square - Fine Books & Art, Easthampton, MA, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. The World I Breathe. New Directions, Norfolk, CT, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Hardcover. Red cloth with gilt spine lettering. 2nd state with 5 stars. 183pp. 700 copies printed. Early gift inscription on front flyleaf dated 1940. Else very good. Dust jacket has 1 large chip at the bottom of the front panel, not affecting any printing & a couple tears. Still, uncommon in jacket.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Dylan Thomas. The World I Breathe. New Directions, 1939.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near fine book in very good- dust jacket. First edition, first issue, with only star to each side of author's name on spine. No markings. Pages clean and slightly toned. Boards are clean with slight darkening along top edge. Dust jacket is chipped to spine ends and to corners as well as 1" area of chipping mid-fold on front panel. Still presents very nicely.
Seller: Open Boat Booksellers, Amherst, MA, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan. The World I Breathe. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue. Fine, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan. THE WORLD I BREATHE. Norfolk, CT: New Directions Press, 1939.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Norfolk, CT: New Directions Press. (1939). 1st edition, with two stars on spine. 1 of 700 copies. Hardcover with dust jacket. Book in very good condition. Boards clean but pages edges soiled. Internally, end-papers age toned with a previous owners name inked to inside front board. Several pages (7, 10 & 53) have very faint, penciled notes to margins and pages 66/67 have darkened from a paper left in to long; otherwise pages clean. The binding is tight and hinges intact. The dust jacket is in fair condition, still in one piece, but well worn, chipped and torn at edges and seams.
Seller: Parnassus Book Service, Inc, YarmouthPort, MA, U.S.A.
THOMAS, Dylan. The World I Breathe. New Directions, Norfolk, 1939.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue with two stars on the spine. Boards a little bowed else near fine in about very good dust jacket with small tears and a little wrinkling.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Thomas, Dylan.. The World I Breathe.. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Two Copies exhibiting alternate state bindings. One with two stars on spine, the other with 10. Both copies are Fine, with spines just a bit darkened. Lacking dustwrappers. Text and endpapers of both copies clean and unmarked. 183pp. The whole edition was limited to 700 copies, as noted on the colophon. An early selected works, comprising selections from his first three books (18 Poems, 1934; Twenty-Five Poems, 1936; and The Map of Love, 1939), and 11 short prose pieces. Printed letterpress. The pair. Q04395
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
THOMAS, DYLAN. The World I Breathe. New Directions, Norfolk, Connecticut, 1939.
Price: US$5500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: The true first edition. The book is fine in all respects. The jacket has edgewear at both spine ends, the top right corner of the front panel and again the top left corner on the rear panel. This copy is signed by Thomas at the front free endpaper. The book's spine shows one star only on either side of the title. Colophon at rear states this is from a limited edition of 700 un-numbered copies. One of the scarcest of all Thomas titles. This book comes in a custom made 1/4 leather drop back box that is very lovely. Rolph, B5, p46. Fine / Very Good.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.