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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
by Thomas, Dylan
- Used
- very good
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
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.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 140941647
- Title
- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
- Author
- Thomas, Dylan
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- Norfolk, CT
- Date Published
- 1940
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature; Poetry;
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About the Seller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
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Portland, Oregon
About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA
Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.
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- Inscribed
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- Gilt
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