Search Results: Signed Books by dylan thomas

London.: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1953.. Original publisher's blue cloth, titles gilt to spine, supplied dust-jacket (see below) with elaborate signed painting in ink and watercolour over covers and flaps by Ceri Richards with his manuscript title and text in black ink: Homage to Dylan Thomas / Ceri Richards 1953 November', top edge stained red.. 8vo. (220 x 146 mm).. Presentation from Ceri Richards to front free endpaper (see below), half-title with illumination in black and blue inks, portrait frontispiece on glossy paper with painting by Augustus John and with Richards' manuscript note 'Died November 9 1953 / New York.' in blue ink, title with elaborate drawing by Richards in black and blue inks and copyright verso, leaf with Thomas' dedication 'To Caitlin' and elaborate drawing in black ink of Thomas' wife Caitlin, 'Note' with drawn frame verso, two leaves with Thomas' 'Foreword' with elaborate illumination, two leaves with list of contents with those poems illuminated by Richards with asterisks… Read More

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1946. The collection containing "Fern Hill", inscribed to a fellow poet and White Horse Tavern regular First edition, first impression, a rare presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and fellow poet on the front free endpaper, "Jose Garcia Villa Dylan Thomas". This is a superb association: the two poets moved in the same circle, and Thomas remained an abiding influence on Villa's poetry.José García Villa was born in Manila in 1908. In 1929 he published a series of erotic poems called "Man-Songs" in the Philippines Herald Magazine and was fined for obscenity and suspended for a year from law school. That same year, his short story "Mir-i-nisa" won a prize of 1,000 pesetas, which he used to travel to the United States. He published a collection of stories, Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others, with Scribner in 1933. He then moved to the Greenwich Village, where he was the only Asian poet in the modernist community that included e.e.… Read More

New York: New Directions, 1952. Inscribed to a fellow poet and White Horse Tavern regular First edition, signed limited issue, number 16 of 100 copies, presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper to his friend and fellow poet, José Garcia Villa (1908-1997), who at the time was an associate editor at New Directions: "For Jose Garcia Villa, yours, Dylan Thomas May 1952".Thomas would die the following year, after leaving the White Horse Tavern, the Greenwich Village institution where he and Villa were sometime drinking companions. Villa, a much acclaimed poet and painter, and recipient of numerous accolades, including the National Artist of the Philippines title for literature in 1973, a Guggenheim Fellowship by Conrad Aiken, and an Academy Award for Literature in 1943, was one of many friends who would publish verses in Dylan's honour: "Sleep,Dylan.Sleep,gentle,genius.[...]Commandant,incendiar,oh,nightgold,Forerunning,verb,myth-hard,he,stands" (Villa, p. 189). This volume… Read More

London: Sunday Referee and the Parton Press, 1936. First edition, first issue of Thomas' first book, one of 250 copies. Octavo, original cloth. Association copy, inscribed by the author to Desmond Hawkins, who was Dylan's literary editor and close friend, with a playful (and perhaps drunken) inscription which attempts to conflate their names, maybe in an effort to create a new single persona out of the two of them: "To and from Hawkins Dylan Desmond Thomas Dylan Desmond Dylan Desmond Hawkins Thomas Dylan Desmond." He has also included a more conventional inscription, signed "Dylan Thomas 24th May 1936." Near fine in a very good dust jacket with some small chips to the extremities. Housed in a custom clamshell box. Rare and desirable signed and inscribed.

New York: New Directions, 1952. 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. Rare and desirable signed as Thomas passed away one year after the publication.

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. Inscribed to a fellow poet and White Horse Tavern regular First US edition, first printing, rare presentation copy, inscribed by the author to his friend and fellow poet on the front free endpaper, "from Dylan Thomas to Jose Garcia Villa". This is a superb association: the two poets moved in the same circle, and Thomas remained an abiding influence on Villa's poetry.José García Villa was born in Manila in 1908. In 1929, he published a series of erotic poems called "Man-Songs" in the Philippines Herald Magazine and was fined for obscenity and suspended for a year from law school. That same year, his short story "Mir-i-nisa" won a prize of 1,000 pesetas, which he used to travel to the United States. He published a collection of stories, Footnote to Youth: Tales of the Philippines and Others, with Scribner in 1933. He then moved to the Greenwich Village, where he was the only Asian poet in the modernist community that included e.e. cummings, Marianne Moore, W. H.… Read More

Mount Vernon, N.Y: Peter Pauper Press, 1942. First edition, signed limited issue of the second in a series of wartime poetry anthologies selected by Oscar Williams, this being the first to be issued as a signed limited edition. Octavo, original three quarter buckram over marbled boards, top edge gilt. One of 26 lettered copies available for sale and signed by 31 of the 32 contributors (W. R. Rogers is absent as is the case with all copies), this is copy V (of 58 as 32 copies were reserved for the contributors). Signed by Conrad Aiken, Kenneth Allott, W. H. Auden, George Barker, John Peale Bishop, R. P. Blackmur, Hugh Chisholm, Gene Derwood, Richard Eberhart, William Empson, Jean Garrigue, Horace Gregory, Alfred Hayes, Ruth Herschberger, Randall Jarrell, Robinson Jeffers, C. Day Lewis, Archibald Macleish, Louis Macneice, Marianne Moore, Howard Nemerov, Frederic Prokosch, Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Winfield Townley Scott, Karl Shapiro, Theodore Spencer, Stephen Spender, Wallace Stevens, Dylan… Read More

Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Dylan Thomas during his 1950 tour of the United States, "With best wishes to...Lilian [sic] and Harry Dick Ross from...and with love of their house, hills, and sea, April 1950." The recipients were Lillian Bos Ross, who was known to her friends as Shanagolden, and Harry Dick Ross, who were fixtures in the Big Sur art community; Lillian wrote a trilogy of novels about a family in Big Sur. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean to spine, light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, shallow sunning to spine ends and stain to textblock edge slightly protruding into margins; pages toned and endsheets browned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a creased snag at the foot of the spine, toning to spine and light soiling. A collection of short prose pieces written by the Welsh poet.

A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING IN DUST JACKET.SIGNED WITH LINE OF POETRY BY DYLAN THOMAS AND DRAWING OF THE DOG. WITH HANDWRITTEN THE DAY THE POET CAMESIGNED BY D. THOMAS LISTS THE DRINKS AT A BAR

[New York]:: New Directions,, [1952].. First edition; No. 68 of 100 copies signed by Dylan Thomas.. publisher's cloth in slipcase with printed paper label.. 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. . 8vo,.

NEW DIRECTIONS, 1963. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. First Edition. A VERY GOOD FIRST EDITION SECOND PRINTING IN DUST JACKET. SIGNED WITH LINE OF POETRY BY DYLAN THOMAS AND DRAWING OF THE DOG. WITH HANDWRITTEN THE DAY THE POET CAME SIGNED BY D. THOMAS LISTS THE DRINKS AT A BAR.

Norfolk CT: New Directions, 1943. 1st edition, original printed purple paperwraps (as issued). Specially inscribed and signed by Dylan Thomas on the half title page. The inscription reads: "for Elmer Borklund / from / Dylan Thomas. / Chicago 1950," in black fountain pen ink. Elmer Borklund was a Chicago based academic, literary critic, and author. Published by James Laughlin in The Poets of the Year series. Only minimal wear to this otherwise fine copy. Very scarce signed.

Typed Letter Signed (in the form of contract proposal) from Victor Weybright at The New American Library of World Literature, Inc. 501 Madison Avenue, New York 22, New York, Murray Hill 8-3470, May 9, 1952. Addressed to Dylan Thomas c/o Mr. Oscar Williams 25 Water Street, New York 4, New York. Very good.



Signed by Thomas at end, and initialed twice by him noting hand corrections.


Contract for the purchase of the first part of Dylan Thomas' "Adventures In The Skin Trade."


Thomas was in New York on his American lecture tour, having arrived on January 20th lecturing at Harvard, U.C. Berkeley, et.al.; leaving the U.S. on May 16th.


Oscar Williams (born Kaplan, 1900-1964) was a poet, anthologist, friend and promoter of Dylan Thomas. He occupied a penthouse at 35 Water Street and Thomas most likely stayed there when in New York.


Dylan Thomas contracts are uncommon on the market today.


See Dylan Thomas "The Collected Letters" (2000 ed) pages 958-959 for a footnote detailing this contract, and a… Read More

New Directions, 1946. First Edition. Very Good/Very Good. 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.

London: J.M. Dent, 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Eighth impression. Slightly cocked, else near fine in very good dustwrapper. Originally commissioned as a BBC radio play. This copy Inscribed by Harold Pinter (using his stage name, David Baron) to his first wife, the actress Vivien Merchant, apparently on the two month anniversary of their marriage: "To Vivien, Nov. 56. Almost two months! David." Merchant went on to play the part of Mrs. Pugh in the 1972 film version of the play directed by Andrew Sinclair, along with a cast that also featured Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter O'Toole, Glynis Johns, and Siân Phillips.

LONDON, DENT, 1949. FIRST EDITION, LIMITED AND SIGNED BY THOMAS. PRINTED BY HANS MARDERSTEIG ON THE HAND-PRESS AT OFFICINA BODONI VERONA FOR DENT AND SONS. 140 COPIES WERE PRINTED ON FABRIANO HAND-MADE PAPER, NUMBERED 11 TO 150, OF WHICH NUMBERS 11 TO 60 WERE FOR SALE IN GREAT BRITAIN, ALL SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR. THIS IS NUMBER 34. SMALL QUARTO, HALF CLOTH OVER PATTERENED BOARDS. A FINE COPY WITH ORIGINAL SLIPCASE WHICH HAS SEVERAL INCHES OF THE TOP STRIP MISSING. VERY SCARCE. THOMAS, BODONI, PRIVATE PRESS

London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1936. Second Printing. Hardcover. Near Fine/Good. Second printing of the first edition. Signed by Dylan Thomas on the front free endpaper; front free endpaper also browned from a clipping formerly laid in. Bound in publisher's gray paper-covered boards with spine lettered in dark blue. Covers rubbed at corners and spine ends, lightly toned at spine ends. Previous owner name and address to front paste down. In a Good unclipped dust jacket with small chips at the spine ends, a large split at the bottom of the front spine joint, and a smaller split to the front flap fold.

DYLAN THOMAS (1914-1953). Thomas was a Welsh poet and author best known for his poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” and his story A Child’s Christmas in Wales. OSCAR WILLIAMS (1900-1964). The pen name of American poet Oscar Kaplan. SB. 1946 & 1950. N.p. A book of poetry signed “Dylan Thomas” and “Oscar Williams”. It is A Little Treasury of Modern Poetry, edited and with an introduction by Oscar Williams. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1946. Both Thomas and Williams inscribed and signed the first free front end page to Melanie Williams. Thomas also wrote out his home address for some reason. “For Melanie Barber with love from Oscar Williams…also for Melanie Barber from Dylan Thomas…Home address: Boat House, Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, Wales ”. Williams’s inscription is dated 1946 and Thomas’s 1950. The jacket has minor chips and tears, and a red stain to the bottom; the overall interior condition is fine.

NY:: New Directions,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1953. Hardcover. First edition. INSCRIBED by the author to a previous owner in 1953. Additionally inscribed by Aeronwy Thomas-Ellis, the author's daughter, in 1976. Some light mottling to blue cloth covered boards, bumped corners, age toning to endpapers, previous owner's name on front free endpaper, else very good in a very good (edge worn with two moderate sized chips, dust soiling) dust jacket with the original $3.75 price on the front flap. ; 199 pages; Signed by Author .

The First UK printing thus published by Enitharmon Editions & Queen Anne Press, UK, in 2013. Hardcover. The BOOK is in Fine unread condition. No WRAPPER as issued. Large format Deluxe Illustrated Edition of which this is number 50 of only 100 such copies. The book is bound by Sangorski and Sutcliffe and housed in the original blue solander box made by Ludlow Bookbinders. The box has a tiny rub to the lower front edge. The book is Signed by Sir Peter Blake to the title page. Accompanied by a Signed and Numbered print (50/100) by the Artist which is housed in its original card folder. The print 'The Sailor's Arms' is printed by Ted Chau at Chaudigital, London, on 315 gms Da Vinci soft textured paper. Published to mark the centenary of Dylan Thomas' birth and to celebrate a body of work by Peter Blake. Blake's richly detailed sequence of 110 watercolours, pencil portraits and collages, comprise one of his most distinctive and significant bodies of work. Collectible. More images available on request.… Read More