Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog ~ DYLAN THOMAS ~ Signed First Edition 1st

Description: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog Norfolk, CT: New Directions, 1940. First American edition, first printing. Signed and inscribed by Dylan Thomas during his 1950 tour of the United States, "With best wishes to...Lilian [sic] and Harry Dick Ross from...and with love of their house, hills, and sea, April 1950." The recipients were Lillian Bos Ross, who was known to her friends as Shanagolden, and Harry Dick Ross, who were fixtures in the Big Sur art community; Lillian wrote a trilogy of novels about a family in Big Sur. Bound in publisher's original red cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good with lean to spine, light rubbing to cloth at corners and spine ends, shallow sunning to spine ends and stain to textblock edge slightly protruding into margins; pages toned and endsheets browned. In a Very Good unclipped dust jacket with a creased snag at the foot of the spine, toning to spine and light soiling. A collection of short prose pieces written by the Welsh poet.

Price: 7500 USD

Location: Portland, Oregon

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