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Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices: Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas, with preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones.
by Dylan Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
J.M. Dent, London, 1954 First edition, 5th (posthumous) printing.
Binding: Hardcover, with jacket.
Author signature card glued-in onto the title page. "Thank you, sincerely Dylan Thomas."
Book Condition: Very Good, jacket, very good with slight chipping to top and bottom of the spine, mylar protector. A play for radio later adapted for the stage and screen follows an all-seeing narrator through a fictional Welsh village, he hears the dreams and innermost thoughts of the villagers as they sleep, and when they awake we see how this affects their waking lives.
Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas, with preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones.
Book Description: Internally very good & clean, no name or inscription, the top edge of text block with shelflife, unmarked beige cloth boards. D/j unclipped good only with loss top/tail of spine & rubbing along edges. Now protected by clear cellophane sleeve. Hardback with dustjacket, 5" x 7 1/2", 101 pages, with preface, musical score, and original radio cast including Richard Burton, with 9s. 6d. price on front flap.
Binding: Hardcover, with jacket.
Author signature card glued-in onto the title page. "Thank you, sincerely Dylan Thomas."
Book Condition: Very Good, jacket, very good with slight chipping to top and bottom of the spine, mylar protector. A play for radio later adapted for the stage and screen follows an all-seeing narrator through a fictional Welsh village, he hears the dreams and innermost thoughts of the villagers as they sleep, and when they awake we see how this affects their waking lives.
Under Milk Wood A Play for Voices by Dylan Thomas, with preface and musical settings by Daniel Jones.
Book Description: Internally very good & clean, no name or inscription, the top edge of text block with shelflife, unmarked beige cloth boards. D/j unclipped good only with loss top/tail of spine & rubbing along edges. Now protected by clear cellophane sleeve. Hardback with dustjacket, 5" x 7 1/2", 101 pages, with preface, musical score, and original radio cast including Richard Burton, with 9s. 6d. price on front flap.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Dorian Gallery
(AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1549603873255
- Title
- Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
- Author
- Dylan Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- J.M. Dent, London
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1954
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Dorian Gallery
Biblio member since 2020
Collaroy Plateau, New South Wales
About Dorian Gallery
Dorian Gallery is a bookshop and gallery in northern Sydney specialising in rare books and fine art. www.doriangallery.com
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- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Text Block
- Most simply the inside pages of a book. More precisely, the block of paper formed by the cut and stacked pages of a book....
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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