Thomas (Dylan) Deaths and Entrances
£250
London, J.M. Dent, 1946.
First edition, first impression. 16mo. Original cloth. Dust-jacket, priced 3s6d.
The collection that established Thomas’s reputation as the most important Welsh poet of the 20th century. It contains ‘Fern Hill,’ ‘A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London,’ and ‘Poem in October’, ranked by many among the most celebrated poems in the English language.
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Minor crease to title-page; cloth very good; jacket rubbed at edges, some loss to head of spine, small dent to upper panel.
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