THE DYLAN THOMAS CENTRE BOOKSHOP CATALOGUE The Dylan Thomas Centre’s bookshop stocks a wide range of books, recordings, videos and DVDs by and about Dylan, alongside its own range of Tŷ Llên publications. We sell books to Dylan fans all over the world, and accept payment over the phone by credit card. Postage and packing is not included in the following prices. Please get in touch with us on +44 (0)1792 463980 or email dylanthomas.lit@swansea.gov.uk and we will be happy to advise.
Books Dylan Thomas - Collected Poems 1934 — 1953 (London: Phoenix, 2003) ISBN 0753810662 The standard edition of all of Dylan’s published poetry collections. Edited and with notes by Walford Davies and Ralph Maud. See also The Notebook Poems, for the full range of Dylan’s surviving poetry.
£5.99 Dylan Thomas - Selected Poems (London: Penguin Classics, 2000) ISBN 978 014 018889 9 A comprehensive selection of Dylan’s poetry, chosen by Walford Davies.
£7.99
Dylan Thomas Poems selected by Derek Mahon (London: Faber, 2004) ISBN 0571218342 Irish poet Derek Mahon introduces his choice of 42 Dylan Thomas poems. Part of Faber’s series where a contemporary poet selects and introduces a poet of the past.
£6.99 Dylan Thomas – Selected Poems (London: Dent, 1997) ISBN 0460 87831 9 Everyman edition of Dylan Thomas’ Selected Poems; a good introduction to his work.
£2
Dylan Thomas Omnibus (London: Phoenix, 2000) ISBN 978 07538 1103 0 This brilliant and comprehensive selection brings together a wide range of poems, stories, broadcasts and the whole of Under Milk Wood.
£8.99
Dylan Thomas - Collected Stories (London: Phoenix, 2000) ISBN 0753810484 The standard edition of all of Dylan’s published short stories, together with juvenilia and the broadcast ‘Return Journey’. Edited by Walford Davies with an introduction by Leslie Norris.
£6.99 Dylan Thomas - A Child’s Christmas in Wales (London: Dolphin, 1986) ISBN 978 0460027727 4 Paperback edition illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
£4.99
Dylan Thomas - A Child’s Christmas in Wales (London: Orion, 1993) ISBN 978 1858810116 Small hardback edition illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
£4.99 Dylan Thomas - Nadolig Plentyn yng Nghymru (London/Llandysul: Dent/Gomer, 2003) ISBN 1843232219 Paperback edition illustrated by Edward Ardizzone.
£4.95 Dylan Thomas - Under Milk Wood (London: Penguin Classics, 2000) ISBN 0 14018888 6 Edited and introduced by Walford Davies.
£7.99
Dylan Thomas – Dan Y Wenallt (Llandysul: Gomer, 2006) ISBN 0 86383 812 X T.James Jones’ translation of Under Milk Wood.
£4.95
Dylan Thomas – Collected Letters (London: Dent, 2000) ISBN 0460 87999 5 Running to 1000 pages, the Collected Letters offer a fascinating insight into Thomas’ life and work.
£15 (RRP £50)
Dylan Thomas – Collected Filmscripts (London: Dent, 1995) ISBN 0460 860 674 This hard-to-find book collects all of Dylan Thomas’ filmscripts, including Rebecca’s Daughters, Me and My Bike and Doctor and the Devils.
£10
Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas and Redonda (Swansea: Tŷ Llên, 2003) ISBN 0953386562 A memoir of Dylan by the eccentric poet John Gawsworth, the self-styled ‘King of Redonda’. A limited edition collector’s item published for the 2003 Dylan Thomas Festival.
£4.00 Dylan Thomas - Dylan Thomas Treasury (London: Phoenix, 2001) ISBN 0753814099 Poems, stories and broadcasts selected by Walford Davies.
£6.99 Dylan Thomas - The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (Hardback) (London: J.M.Dent, 2003) ISBN 0460880004 A selection of Dylan’s letters to women, including Caitlin, Pamela Hansford Johnson and Liz Reitell.
£9.99 Dylan Thomas - The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas (Paperback) (London: J.M.Dent, 2003) ISBN 0753812967 A selection of Dylan’s letters to women, including Caitlin, Pamela Hansford Johnson and Liz Reitell.
£7.99 Dylan Thomas - The Notebook Poems 1930 — 1934 (London: Everyman, 1999) ISBN 0460860461 Dylan’s early work, from the four surviving ‘Notebooks’ written in his teens. The necessary lead-in to the Collected Poems 1934—53. Edited and with explanatory notes by Ralph Maud.
£6.99
Dylan Thomas - Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog (London: Everyman, 2001) ISBN 0460873016 Dylan’s semi-autobiographical collection of stories about his childhood and adolescence in Swansea and Carmarthenshire.
£6.99 Dylan Thomas - Rebecca’s Daughters (London: Grafton, 1992) ISBN 0586215255 Dylan’s filmscript about the Rebecca Riots in west Wales. It was finally made into a film in 1992.
£3.99 Aeronwy Thomas – My Father’s Places (London: Constable and Robinson, 2009) ISBN 978 184901 005 4 Dylan’s daughter’s memories of her childhood in Laugharne.
£14.99
John Ackerman, A Dylan Thomas Companion (London: Macmillan, 1991) ISBN 0333607031 An interpretation of Dylan’s life and works by a notable Thomas scholar.
£23.99
Tony Brown (ed) Welsh Writing in English — A Yearbook of Critical Essays 2003 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003) ISBN 0708318290 This volume of the annual Yearbook of Critical Essays contains several articles on Dylan: Victor N. Paananen, “The Social Vision of Dylan Thomas”; Victor Golightly, “Writing with dreams and blood”; Dylan Thomas, “Marxism and 1930s Swansea”; James A Davies, “Apostrophes (and Other Endings) in Dylan Thomas’s Deaths and Entrances” and “Dylan Thomas in Vancouver”, Geoffrey Madoc-Jones.
£12.95 James A Davies, A Pocket Guide to Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000) ISBN 070831628X An accessible and illustrated account of the relationship between Thomas’ life, work and the three areas which were most important to him.
£6.99
Walford Davies, Dylan Thomas— Open Guides to Literature Series (Milton Keynes: Open University Press, 1986) ISBN 0335150837 An introduction to Dylan’s poetry aimed at A Level and undergraduate students, but also useful to the general reader.
£5.00
Paul Ferris, Dylan Thomas: The Biography (Talybont: Y Lolfa, 2006) ISBN 0862439035 A comprehensive biography of Dylan Thomas, originally published in 1977 but revised with new material in 2000.
£ 12.99
John Goodby & Chris Wigginton (eds), Dylan Thomas—Contemporary Critical Essays (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001) ISBN 0333803957 An incisive collection of essays using modern critical theory to examine Dylan Thomas’ work. Essential reading for all students of Thomas.
£14.99
Heather Holt, Dylan Thomas—The Actor (Swansea: 2003) ISBN 0952916517 Actress Heather Holt discusses Dylan’s time with the Little Theatre Company in Swansea.
£6.99
Andrew Lycett, Dylan Thomas—A New Life (London: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 2003) Paperback ISBN 075381787x The most recent biography of Thomas which makes use of newly released material.
£10.99
Ralph Maud, Where have the old words got me? (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2003) ISBN 0708317790 An examination of each poem in Collected Poems from a biographical perspective.
£16.99
Andrew Sinclair, Dylan the Bard (New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 1999) Paperback ISBN 0312265808 A discussion of Dylan’s vision of Wales and how that related to his life and work by the director of the film version of Under Milk Wood.
£7.99
Caitlin Thomas, Double Drink Story (London: Virago, 2008) ISBN 978 1 84408 518 7 Caitlin’s story of her life with Dylan.
£7.99
David N Thomas, A Farm, Two Mansions and a Bungalow (Bridgend: Seren, 2000) ISBN 1854112759 An exploration of Dylan’s links with Carmarthenshire and a re-examination of the Majoda Incident and of the location of Under Milk Wood.
£9.95
Dylan Thomas Society of Great Britain, I Sang in my chains (Swansea: Dylan Thomas Society, 2003) ISBN 0954583906 A collection of pieces written to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of Dylan’s death.
£12.00 Vernon Watkins, Poems for Dylan (Llandysul: Gomer, 2003) ISBN 1843232367 Poems written in memory of Dylan by his close friend, the poet Vernon Watkins.
£5.95 Dylan Thomas Trail—Swansea City Centre (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications, 1999) A self-guided walking tour of areas associated with Dylan in Swansea city centre.
£1.50
Dylan Thomas Trail—The Uplands (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications, 2000) A self-guided walking tour of areas associated with Dylan in Uplands, Swansea.
£1.50 Dylan Thomas Trail—Mumbles and Gower (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications, 2001) A self-guided walking/driving tour of areas associated with Dylan in Mumbles and Gower.
£1.50
Dylan Thomas Trail—West Wales (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications, 2002) A self-guided driving/walking tour of areas associated with Dylan in west Wales including Laugharne and New Quay.
£1.50 The Wales That Inspired Dylan Thomas— Dylan Thomas’ words, Brian Gaylor’s images (Swansea: Tŷ Llên, 2003) ISBN 0953386546 Images by Swansea photographer Brian Gaylor juxtaposed with quotes from Dylan’s poetry, prose and letters. Introduced by Dylan’s daughter, Aeronwy Thomas.
£12.50 The Mabinogion (London: Penguin Classics, 1976) ISBN 0140443223 Collection of Welsh tales from around the eleventh century, from which the name ‘Dylan’ was taken.
£9.99
Adrian Mitchell, Who Killed Dylan Thomas, illustrated by Ralph Steadman (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications, 1998) ISBN 0 9533865 0 3 Poet Adrian Mitchell discusses Dylan Thomas’ life and work in this exclusive Tŷ Llên publication, illustrated by Ralph Steadman. (originally published in 1922: this edition—London: Macmillian, 1990)
£9.95 Richmal Crompton, Just William ISBN 0333 53408 The young Dylan loved these stories about a mischievous schoolboy.
£4.99 W.S. Graham, New Collected Poems (London: Faber, 2004) ISBN 0571210155 Attractive and comprehensive edition of the poems of W.S. Graham, who met and was influenced by Dylan.
£25.00
Heinrich Hoffman, Struwwelpeter (London: Chrysalis, 2003) ISBN 1843650606 Dylan loved and was influenced by the tales of Struwwelpeter.
£4.99
David N. Thomas, The Dylan Thomas Murders (a novel) (Bridgend: Seren, 2002) ISBN 1854113046 Thomas, an expert on Dylan’s connections with Ceredigion, writes a novel with a Dylan theme.
£6.95
Vernon Watkins, Collected Poems of Vernon Watkins (Ipswich: Golgonooza, 2000) ISBN 0903880733 Substantial edition of the poetry of Dylan’s close friend and fellow Swansea poet.
£16.95
Vernon Watkins, LMNTRE Poems (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications, 1999) ISBN 09533865 Vernon Watkins’ previously unpublished comic verse in a special illustrated edition.
£9.95
Paul Willets, Fear & Loathing in Fitzrovia (Stockport: Dewi Lewis, 2003) ISBN 1899235698 Fascinating biography of Julian Maclaren Ross, with an exploration of his links with Dylan.
£14.99
CDs The Caedmon Collection (London: Harper Collins, 2002) 978-0694526598 On February 22, 1952, Dylan Thomas made his first recording for Caedmon Records, A Child's Christmas in Wales and Five Poems. It was the first of many albums Thomas was to record for Caedmon. This recording launched not only Caedmon, but the spoken-word industry as well. This collection gathers together onto 11 CDs all of those Caedmon LPs. A wonderful collection of Dylan Thomas reading his own work and that of others.
£28.95
Dylan Thomas at the BBC (BBC Radio Collection) ISBN 0563530863 Dylan Thomas reads from his work
£12.99
Dylan Thomas—A Private Reading (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications 2001) ISBN 0953386538 A rarity—this CD was made from a recording in the front room of a private house in the states in the 50s. Dylan read one of his own poems plus three others at the request of his hostess. The tape recording was sent to the Dylan Thomas Centre in 2001 and this unique CD produced from it.
£6.99
Dylan Thomas Jazz Suite— 12 Thomas Poems Set to Music (Women in Jazz & Tŷ Llên Publications)
£7.99 Dylan Thomas Reading His Poetry (London: Harper Collins) ISBN 0007179456
£12.99 Dylan Thomas reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales & 5 Poems (London: Harper Collins) ISBN 0898456487
£9.99
Under Milk Wood with Richard Burton as First Voice (BBC Radio Collection) ISBN 1858497760
£10.99 Under Milk Wood Produced by Sir George Martin (Spindrift / EMI) ISBN 2435851572
£12.99
DVDs Dylan Thomas—Welsh Wordscapes on DVD (Swansea: Tŷ Llên Publications) ISBN 0954047699 Dylan’s words read by Peter Read and Brian Gaylor’s images
£12.00 Under Milk Wood (Universal) ISBN 8211022.11 Starring Richard Burton, Peter O’Toole and Elizabeth Taylor
£15.99 Animated Under Milk Wood Fantastic animated version of Dylan Thomas’ ‘play for voices’, narrated by Richard Burton.
£19.75
Posters Dylan Thomas Poster A series of four striking posters, featuring Lee Miller’s iconic photographs of Dylan, taken for Vogue in the 1940s, alongside one of Dylan’s most famous quotations about his home town: “Swansea is still the best place”. The posters can be bought individually or as a set.
£5.00 each
‘Fern Hill’ Poster Available in two designs, the image on this poster shows the hill overlooking Fern Hill, the farm Dylan often visited as a child.
£5.00 each
‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ Poster One of Dylan’s best-loved poems reproduced as a poster.
£5.00
‘Prayer’ Small poster featuring the Reverend Eli Jenkins’ ‘Prayer’ from Under Milk Wood.
£3
INFORMATION CITY AND COUNTY OF SWANSEA • DINAS A SIR ABERTAWE The Dylan Thomas Centre is open from 10am—4.30pm seven days a week including bank holidays.
The Dylan Thomas Centre, Somerset Place, Swansea, SA1 1RR Tel: +44 (0)1792 463980 email: dylanthomas.lit@swansea.gov.uk www.dylanthomas.com