Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas. Introduction by John L. Sweeney

New York: New Directions, 1946. First edition, second issue with redesigned title page and later New Directions address, "333 Sixth Ave." on copyright page. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas by Augustus John opposite p. ix. xxiii, 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Red cloth, gilt titles blocked in black on spine. Near fine in very good original unclipped dust jacket (spine sunned, small loss at head). First edition, second issue with redesigned title page and later New Directions address, "333 Sixth Ave." on copyright page. Frontispiece portrait of Thomas by Augustus John opposite p. ix. xxiii, 183 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. A.N.s. of Dylan Thomas, a presentation to Carol Louise Zeman dated September 1st, 1950, laid in. The note is on stationery of the Ritz Hotel, where Marguerite and Louis Cohn usually stayed when they were in London. They were proprietors of House of Books, early specialist dealers in modern literature and publishers of a series of signed books. Their acquaintances included T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, and Robert Frost among numerous others. Carol Zeman (later Rothkopf) was Marguerite's niece. Rolph B11. Provenance: Margie Cohn; Carol Z. Rothkopf