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Baldwin, James: Go Tell It on the Mountain. Limited edition privately printed and published by Franklin Library, Franklin Center, PA, USA. 1979. SIGNED by the author.

Condition: Fine+. Tigfht binding. No dust wrapper as issued. Light brown leather with gold accents on the cover/ spine and page edging, includes an attached satin bookmark ribbon. Price: £125.00 Key Poets Series: Various authors. Fore Publications, London. 1950. First editions. Ten slim volumes. Wrappers.

Selections of poems by Edith Sitwell, George Barker, Randall Swingler, Jonathan Denwood, Stanley Snaith, Dorian Cooke, Jack Lindsay, Maurice Carpenter, Jack Beeching and Norman Cameron. Each volume is signed by its respective author. A very near fine set in the original card box which is a bit dusty and grubby. Price: £150.00 Lee, Laurie. Two Women. First edition. Inscribed to John Arlott: “To John A with affection Laurie Lee”. First edition.

Andre Deutsch, London, 1983. Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. The suppressed first issue of the first edition, which was subsequently recalled and pulped due to the inclusion of a double-spread nude photograph of Lee's wife. Unpaginated. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Illustrated endpapers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly eighty photographs by the author, many in colour, full-page or double-spread, of his wife and daughter Jessie, accompanied by a charming text detailing his experiences of marriage and fatherhood. Condition: Good+. Dust wrapper: Good+ non-price-clipped dust wrapper. Price: £75.00

Lycett. Andrew. Dylan Thomas: A New Life. First Edition.

2003. New. Signed by the author. P&P UK mainland is £4.95. ISBN number is: 0297607936. Price: £15.00 The War Poets: an anthology of the war poetry of the twentiet century: edited by Oscar Williams. First edition.

New York 1945. Good+ in good+ dust wrapper. Contains poems by Dylan Thomas and Vernon Watkins and a host of their contempories, together with a phot gallery at the end of the book. Signed presentation inscription by Oscar Williams and three other contributing poets. Price: £150.00 Thomas, Dylan. Deaths and Entrances. First edition.

Hardcover. Published by J. M. Dent. 1946. Condition: Good +. Slight inevitable discolouration of the pages with slight foxing too. Some page edges rough as issued. With dust jacket. Condition: Good+. Very small tear to the top of spine and some slight foxing. Bound in the publisher's orange cloth. The binding is tight and there are no marks, bookplates or writing. Price: £175.00 Thomas, Dylan. New Poems. First edition. Hardcover.

Published by New Directions, Norfolk, Conn. 1943.

Condition: Good. Inevitable discolouration of the pages.

With dust jacket. Condition: Good. Light deterioration to the edges but purple colour visible. Owners signature in pen on the paste-down endpaper and two notes about how two of the poems differ in Deaths and Entrances. Price: £100.00

Thomas, Dylan. In the Direction of the Beginning.

Illustrated by Catherine Kanner, commentary by Nathan O. Reynolds. First edition. Hardcover. The Melville Press, Pacific Palisades, California. 2003. Condition Good+. The white toggle fastening has broken but has been repaired.

Price: £250.00 Thomas, Dylan. The Laugharne Poems. Wood-engravings and drawings by Iohn Petts. Preface by Lynn Hughes. First edition. Hardcover in slip box. Condition: Fine.

230 x 250 mm. 64pp. The paper is 175gsm Somerset Book and the type is Eric Gill's Ioanna. The 21 engravings were printed from the wood with 9 drawings printed from polymer blocks. Sea green leather spine with printed paper sides, slipcase covered in blue/green cloth with recessed ‘photograph’. Spine blocked in silver. All binding was by The Fine Bindery, Wellingborough. ISBN: 0 907664 62 8 Main Edition: 250 numbered copies this being number 36.

Price: £200.00 The Years Poetry 1934. Compiled by Gerald Gould, John Lehmann and Denys Kilham Roberts. First edition. Good with some age discolouration. Dust wrapper good with some age discolouration. Dylan Thomas first ever poem published in a book. Price: £250.00 Transitions 25 (Fall 1936): edited by Eugene Jolas with Joan Miro cover illustration and including a poem by Dylan Thomas and his short story The Mouse and the Woman.

Good condition and no dust wrapper as published. Price: £150.00

Wells, Herbert George (H. G.): Certain Personal Matters: A Collection of Material, mainly autobiographical. [London]: Lawrence & Bullen, Ltd., 1898. Slate blue cloth, lettered in gilt. Bookplate of BBC editor F. Wyndham Goldie on free endsheet (and shadow of another), front inner hinge cracking slightly, cloth a bit soiled, with small nick at crown of spine, but a good copy. First edition. Affixed to the front pastedown is a small letter card from Wells, Spade House, Sandgate, n.y.: “Morning! No carpets - no furniture no nothing, but ‘appy — The H.G.’s.”. Price: £145.00

If you are interested in any books please feel free to request photographs if that would help you make an informed decision and do ask any questions. My email address is: david@davidcowell.net Please tell me the book you are interested in and ask your question.

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