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Dylan Marlais Thomas

Male : Poet. Married Caitlin Macnamara 1937. An alcoholic, he died in the USA on a lecture tour
Nationality : Welsh Place of Birth : Swansea, Glamorganshire

Date of Birth : 1914 Date of Death : 1953 Age : 39

Other Work : Journalist

Education : Swansea GS
All Dent unless stated
1934-1940
Eighteen Poems
(1934 Sunday Referee & Parton Bookshop) - c250 (1942 Fortune Press - 2nd Ed)
Twenty-five Poems
(1936)
The Map of Love : Verse and Prose
(1939) - c1000
The World I Breathe : Stories and Poems
(1939 New Directions, US)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
(1940) (1940 New Directions)

1941-1950
(In) Horizon : July 1941 "Ballad of the Long-Legged Bait"
From In Memory of Anne Jones
(1942 Poem Caseg Broadsheet) - single sheet. Special calf folder
New Poems
(1943 New Directions, US)
The Selected Dylan Thomas
(1946 New Directions)
Deaths and Entrances
(1946) * see below
Twenty-six Poems
(1950 Dent / New Directions) - Ltd Ed 150

1951-1955
In Country Sleep & Other Poems
(1952 New Directions, NY) - 100 Signed & 5000 others
Collected Poems 1934-1952
(1952) - 65 Signed Ltd Ed in leather
Collected Poems 1934-1952
(1952) (1953 New Directions)
The Doctor and the Devils
(1953) (1953 ND)
[Filmed in 1985]
The Collected Poems
(1953 ND)
Under Milk Wood : A Play for Voices
(1954) (1954 ND)
[Filmed in 1971]
Quite Early One Morning : Broadcasts
(1954 Dent 10/6) (1954 ND)
Conversation about Christmas
(1954 New Directions, US) - Ltd Ed 2000
A Child's Christmas in Wales
(1954 New Directions, Norfolk, Conn) (1968 Dent)
Adventures in the Skin Trade & Other Stories
(1955 New Directions, US)
(1955 Putnam, London 9/6) - foreword by Vernon Watkins
[His unfinished autobiographical novel]
A Prospect of the Sea & Other Stories
(1955 Dent 10/6)

1956-1965
Dylan Thomas in America
(1956)
Letters to Vernon Watkins
(1957 Faber / Dent) (1957 ND)
Dylan Thomas Miscellany : I - Poems, Stories, Broadcasts
(1963 Dent)
The Beach at Falesa
(1963 Stein & Day, NY) (1964 Cape)
Twenty Years A-Growing
(1964) - film script from the story by Maurice O'Sullivan
Rebecca's Daughters
(1965 Triton) (1965 Little Brown)
Me and My Bike
(1965 McGraw-Hill) (1965 Triton)

1966-1975
Selected Letters of Dylan Thomas
(1966) (1967 ND) - Edited by Constantine Fitzgibbon
The Notebooks of Dylan Thomas - Poet in the Making
(1967 New Directions, NY) - Edited by Ralph Maud
(1968 Dent 45/-)
Twelve More Letters
(1969 Turret Books) - Ltd Ed 175. Yellow buckram gilt
Early Prose Writings
(1971) (1972 ND)
Under Milk Wood
(1972 Folio Society) - Ceri Richards

1976-1986
The Followers
(1976)
The Death of the King's Canary
(1976 Hutchinson £3.25) - with John Davenport
A Child's Christmas in Wales
(1979 Dent) (1980 Godine) - Edward Ardizzone
The Collected Stories
(1983 Dent £8.50)
Poem on His Birthday : In the Mustardseed Sun
(1983 Tern Press, Market Drayton) - Ltd Ed 85. Nicholas Parry
* Deaths and Entrances
(1984 Gregynog Press) - Ltd Ed 268
with John Piper illus. Slipcase. Morocco backed
The Collected Letters of Dylan Thomas
(1985 Dent £20) - edited Paul Ferris
The Outing
(1985 Dent £5.95) - Paul Cox

Since 1987
The Collected Poems 1934-1953
(1988 Dent) (1996 Dent £16.99)
The Notebook Poems 1930-1934
(1989 Dent) - edited by Prof Ralph Maud
The Dylan Thomas Omnibus
(1995 Dent £18.99)
The Love Letters of Dylan Thomas
(2001 Dent £9.99)

READING
Derek Stanford : Dylan Thomas
(1955 Spearman and Calder 15/-)
John Malcolm Brinnin : Dylan Thomas in America
(1956 Dent 18/-)
J Alexander Rolf : Dylan Thomas - A Bibliography
(1956 Dent 45/-)
Ralph Maud : Dylan Thomas in Print - A Bibliographical History
(1970 Dent)
(1970 Univ of Pittsburgh Press)
Paul Ferris : Dylan Thomas
(1977 Hodder & Stoughton) (1999 Dent £25)
Daniel Jones : My Friend Dylan Thomas
(1977 Dent £3.95)
Hugo Manning : Dylan Thomas
(1977 Enitharmon Press) - 550. P P Piech
William York Tindall : A Reader's Guide to Dylan Thomas
(1996 Syracuse UP £13.50)
Andrew Lycett : Dylan Thomas - A New Life
(2003 Weidenfeld & Nicolson £20)
(Ed) David N Thomas : Dylan remembered (2003 Seren £25)

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