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First edition, first impression, one of 730 copies of Thomas's second book, here in superb condition. This landmark collection includes "And death shall have no dominion". Commenting on the blossoming writer, the jacket blurb notes that the "young Welsh poet" has "attracted an unusual amount of attention with his Dionysiac verse... How that voice will develop remains to be seen". Crown octavo. Original grey boards, spine lettered in blue, top edge blue, fore and bottom edges untrimmed. With dust jacket. Printed in Eric Gill's Perpetua type. Publisher's advert slip loosely inserted. Foxing to edges and endpapers, text clean; jacket sharp and unclipped: a near-fine copy in fine jacket. Rolph B3.

Twenty-Five Poems is a 1936 poetry collection by Dylan Thomas, his second published volume of poetry.