Adventures in the Skin Trade and Other Stories

New York: New American Library - A Signet Book, 1956. First Signet Edition . Mass Market Paperback. Fair. 189 Pages. May 1956 Edition. Red page edges with top edges faded. Square book with light age-tanned pages and signs of wear. Complete and Unabridged. Covers are intact and there are no marks or stamps. Here are the eloquent, diverting and provocative stories of the celebrated contemporary short story writer and poet Thomas. Dylan. Powerful and dramatic, his work has been awarded the highest praise by reviewers. Before his death at age 39, Dyland Thomas was acclaimed as the greatest lyric poet of his generation. He lived most of his life in his native Wales, but made a number of trips to the United States to give poetry readings which were tremendously popular and hghly praised by critics all over the United States. He is the author of many short stories, several volumes of poetry, and a play for voices, Under Milk Wood. Here is the vital, lusty, antic world of one of the 20th century's most gifted writers. Contents in 21 Poems: Adventures in the Skin Trade, After the Fair, The Enemies, The Tree, The Visitor, The Lemon, The Burning Baby, The Orchards, The Mouse and the Woman, The Horse's Ha, A Prospect of the Sea, The Holy Six, Prologue to an Adventure, The Map of Love, In the Direction of the Beginning, An Adventure from a Work in Progress, The School for Witches, The Dress, The Vest, The True Story, and The Followers.