A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas

A Child's Christmas in Wales

Dylan Thomas 

New Directions 1954  

First Edition. Second State Dustjacket. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. DJ condition: Good+. Tan paper boards with red and black lettering, dustjacket matches the cover design exactly, made of the same paper material. Chapter titles printed in red ink accompanied by small, simple illustrations. The dustjacket is quite clean but has mild toning around the very edges. There are three small tears around the perimeter and a small punctured hole where the flap wraps around the back board. Some wear along the spine. Unclipped jacket with price "$1.50" stated. The boards are in great shape without almost any visible discoloration or wear. There is only a tiny spot where the paper has been ruptured, almost imperceptibly, in the same spot where the dustjacket was visibly punctured. The interior is quite pristine. Two middle signatures are pulling away slightly from the hinge and thus there is a visible gap between the signatures where the spine is exposed between pg 18-19. 

A nostalgic prose poem in eight sections over 32 pages, penned by the celebrated Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. This book was published posthumously in 1954, only a year after Thomas's premature death.