The Modern Movement: The Annette Campbell-White Collection

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Lot 171
  • 171

Thomas, Dylan.

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Description

  • Twenty-Five Poems. London: J.M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1936
first edition, 4to, original grey boards lettered in dark blue on spine, dust-jacket, some minor spotting, minor chips to head and foot of dust-jacket spine

Literature

Connolly 78(b); Rolph B3

Catalogue Note

"The difficult but rewarding crypto-christian sonnet sequence of Twenty-Five Poems (another unprocurable) led on to an ambiguous period, when Thomas wrote for little magazines and re-shaped his poems to suit the surrealist canon." (Connolly)