In Country Sleep
by Thomas, Dylan
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine/very good
- Seller
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Century City, California, United States
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About This Item
New York: New Directions, 1952. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good. 1st trade edition (there was also a limited edition of 100 copies), inscribed by Thomas. Original greenish-blue boards, corners lightly pressed, else fine, in a jacket with minimal wear to the extremities and some general toning, else very good. Custom ¼ morocco slip case. Thomas's most famous single poem "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" (pp. 18-19), first appears in this book.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Biblioctopus (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 949
- Title
- In Country Sleep
- Author
- Thomas, Dylan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- New Directions
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1952
- Keywords
- inscribed/signed
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Biblioctopus
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Slip Case
- A protective sleeve, often made of decorative cardboard or leather which houses a book. It is open on one end, so as to allow...
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...