Thomas, Dylan.

Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. New York: New Directions, 1946, first edition, signed by the author on front endpaper, also signed and with some notes by the American poet John Hollander, original cloth, dust-jacket, jacket slightly torn; Thomas's copy of: A Little Treasury of British Poetry...edited...by Oscar Williams. New York: Scribner's, 1951, 12mo, with the ownership signature of Dylan Thomas ("...Salt Lake City | April 1952"), also signed by Oscar Williams beneath  ("...same place | another time") and on front endpaper, also signed by Utah poets Olive and Brewster Ghiselin, photograph of further owner C. Cameron Johns loosely inserted, original buckram, slipcase, worn; together with cheque to the poet by Elizabeth Reitell, signed by the poet on the reverse, mounted with black and white photograph, framed and glazed (3)

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