18 Poems
by Dylan Thomas
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Bellevue, Kentucky, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
8vo, black textured cloth with upside down gilt titles, 32pp. Orange dust wrapper with red titles, price of 6s to front flap, publisher's list to rear panel. The first state of the second 'bootleg' edition of the author's first book, published by The Fortune Press in 1942. Title page states 'Fortune Press, London S.W.1', copyright states First Published in 1934, no mention of Knole Park Press printing. Mild rubbing to edges and panels of dust jacket, light bumping to edges of cloth. A handsome copy in mylar.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Heaven-Haven Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- B-27
- Title
- 18 Poems
- Author
- Dylan Thomas
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- The Fortune Press
- Place of Publication
- 1942
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
Heaven-Haven Books
Biblio member since 2024
Bellevue, Kentucky
About Heaven-Haven Books
Est. 2020. Secondhand, rare & uncommon books, bought & sold. Our specialties include contemporary small press poetry, Southern & Appalachian literature, Kentuckiana, classical and modern philosophy, Catholicism and Christian theology.
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