Search Results: Welsh writers from Berthoff Books

Oxford University Press, 1950. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Very Good. 28 pages. Illustrated with drawings in red. Pretty little booklet features the Welsh bardic and other traditions, ending with recipe for wassail. 4-1/2" x 6-1/4", stapled in decoratively patterned self-wraps, "Nadolig Llawen i chwi" ("Joyous Christmas to you!") printed on front, holes in wraps at the staples, tear up the crease above top staple repaired with tape from inside, tan stain near top of p. 12-17. Pages unmarked.

New Directions, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 183 pages, with bibliography of Thomas's works up to 1946. Introduction by John L. Sweeney. Frontispiece from portrait by Augustus John. Forty-seven poems, six stories, two of which are from "Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog". 8vo, green cloth with black inset for faded title lettering on spine, red topstain, boards soiled, a bit splotched, and sunned, especially the spine; corners worn and/or bumped, edges and end-papers age-tanned, darker tan stains on p. xxii-xxiii (from newspaper clipping laid in) and p. 96 at bottom corner and reaching through to a couple more pages (coffee stain), foxing to frontispiece plate and adjacent pages, sticker from the Grolier Book Shop affixed to ffep. Name of former owner Prof. Warner Berthoff and date Feb. 1948 written on front pastedown, his underscoring and/or marginalia on approximately 20 pages. Laid-in clipping from TLS of March 2, 1984 - review by Frances Morris of DT's The… Read More

Oxford University Press (Geoffrey Cumberlege), 1956. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Good/Fair. 330 pages, Selected and with an Introduction by Gwyn Jones. Twenty-six stories by 18 authors, including Dylan Thomas, Richard Hughes, Kate Roberts, Caradoc Evans, written in early to mid-20th century. From the World's Classics series. 18mo (4" x 6"), dark blue cloth with blind-stamped colophon on front board, gilt lettering on spine almost entirely rubbed away, shelf wear especially to crown and heel, edges age-toned, foxing and tanning to end papers, water stains to fore-edge; in unclipped lightly soiled DJ with a pencil mark on back panel, 1/2" chip to top of DJ on spine and 2" chip to bottom, clear tape repairs. Name of former owner written on ffep, her notes in pencil in ToC, small marks in margins of two other pages.