Thomas Preface Musical Settings Daniel (10 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition Later Printing. Seventh impression of the 1954 first edition. Clean and firmly bound brown cloth boards with no writing inside, small old Foyles bookseller's sticker on the front paste down. The jacket is not price clipped, but has some chipping and wear along the edges with a very triangle of loss from the front base. …

Fourth Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg.

Eight Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg.

Eight Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg.

Fourth Edition. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. 1 Kg.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Acting Edition / Fifth Print (first in this edition published in 1958). Paperback copy, no dustjacket as issued. 95pp. B/w photographic frontispiece. Not library copy, no inscriptions, name/address sticker to top corner of half title page. (65/2). …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Reprint. First published in 1954, this is a twelfth impression of 1961. Some edge wear and chipping to top and bottom of Rees' fabulous retro jacket and spine, corners very slightly rubbed, not price clipped (10s 6d), previous owner's bookplate and inscription to ffep, very slight lean, internally clean and tight, overall a vg++ copy, in bright unsunned jacket reminiscent in style to John Craxton and John Minton, by Welsh artist Brian Rees (b.1930).101pp. Commissioned by the BBC, and described by Welsh poet Dylan Thomas (1914-53), as 'a play for voices' UNDER MILK WOOD takes the form of an emotive and hilarious account of a spring day in the fictional Welsh seaside village of Llareggub. We learn of the inhabitants' dreams and desires, their loves and regrets. The play introduces us to characters such as Captain Cat who dreams of his drowned former seafellows and Nogood Boyo who dreams of nothing at all. It is a unique and touching depiction of a village that has 'fallen head over bells in love'. The First Voice narration reveals the ordinary world of daily happenings and events, while the Second Voice conveys the intimate, innermost thoughts of the fascinating folk of Llareggub. There have been many productions of UNDER MILK WOOD over the years and Richard Burton, Peter O'Toole, Elizabeth Taylor, Sir Anthony Hopkins and Tom Jones have all starred in radio, stage or film adaptations. Scarce with jacket. Jacket by Brian Rees (illustrator).…

Blue printed wrappers. First Acting Edition. Frontispiece by Angus McBean showing the set for the London production at the New Theatre Spine just a little discoloured, otherwise a very nice copy.

Hardcover. dj. First Edition, Second Printing. 12mo, 101 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Very good minus condition dust jacket. Spine is turquoise with black lettering. Dust jacket protected by mylar covering, price uncut: "8s.6d." on front flap, and has mild shelving wear along extremities, mild chipping to fore corners, rubbing wear along rear joint, and a 2in. closed tear along rear tail edge. Boards have mild bumping wear to fore corners, mild rubbing wear along front joint, and moderate shelving and rubbing wear along spine tail and tail edges. Textblock edges mildly age-toned, head edge mildly dust-burned, and has previous owners' names on front free endpaper. DL Consignment. Shelved in Room Z. 1397364. Special Collections - Upstairs.…

Condition: Very Good. Advance Proof of the First Edition. Advance proof of the first edition. ix, 101 pp. Self-bound in what would be the dust jacket for the first edition, with "advance proofs only" rubber-stamped on front cover. Very Good with slight lean to binding, light sunning to spine, light edge wear, several small wax droplets to front cover and faint foxing to textblock edges. Very scarce in this format.The Welsh poet's radio play that takes place in a fictional, decaying Welsh fishing village called Llareggub, an anagram for "bugger all". Set over a 24-hour pub crawl, Thomas evokes an unconventional narrative amongst his character's inner dialogues and dreams. Commissioned by the BBC and first performed in May 1953, Thomas himself read several roles just months before his death. It has since been performed many times, most notably by Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones.…