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First printing of the true first edition - published as a paperback original pamphlet. Dustwrapper designed by Iestyn Rees. ***Near fine in light-blue card wrappers, with a sewn binding, and with black titles on the front wrapper. The covers are uncreased at the edges and nice and clean, with just very light foxing on the front cover. Internally also near fine, with no inscriptions or annotations. Pages clean. No creases or tears. No foxing. ***In a very good original, and very thin, illustrated dustwrapper, which retains the publisher's printed price of 3/6 on the front flap. There is quite a long closed tear to the bottom edge of the front panel, with some associated creasing, and a small closed tear to the top edge of the back panel. However, the dustwrapper is nice and clean, with just some slight marks on the back panel [which is white]. ***52 pages. 216 mm x 135 mm. ***'William Evans (22 April 1883 - 16 July 1968), better known by his bardic name of Wil Ifan, was a Welsh poet who served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1947 to 1950. He was the son of Dan Evans, a Congregationalist minister, and Mary (née Davies). He was born in Cwmbach, near Llanwinio, Carmarthenshire, but later moved with his family to Cwmafan and attended grammar school in Port Talbot. He was educated at University of Wales, Bangor, and Mansfield College, Oxford. Wil Ifan followed in his father's footsteps by becoming a Congregationalist Minister. He was ordained in the English Congregationalist Chapel in Dolgellau, Merionethshire, in 1906 and served as the chapel minister for three years. Whilst in Dolgellau he met his future wife Nesta Wyn Edwards whom he married on 28 December 1910 in Dolgellau. They had four children. In 1909 he became the minister of the English Congregationalist church in Bridgend Glamorganshire. Apart from time spent in the Richmond Road English Congregational Church, Cardiff, between 1917 and 1925, Evans spent the rest of his life in Bridgend. Like all Archdruids, he was a winner of a major poetry prize at the National Eisteddfod, winning the Crown at Abergavenny in 1913, at Birkenhead in 1917 (when Hedd Wyn was posthumously awarded the chair) and at Pwllheli in 1925. He died in Bridgend and is buried at Rhydymain in Merionethshire. [Wiki] ***First printing of the true first edition. An uncommon publication, of interest to collectors and readers of Welsh poetry. ***For all our books, postage is charged at cost, allowing for packaging: any shipping rates indicated on ABE are an average only: we will reduce the P & P charge where appropriate - please contact us for postal rates for heavier books and sets etc. Seller Inventory # PB370
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Title: FURTHER POEMS [First edition - first ...
Publisher: Western Mail & Echo Ltd., Cardiff
Publication Date: 1955
Binding: Original Wraps
Illustrator: Iestyn Rees [Dust jacket design]
Condition: Near Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: First Edition
