Oct 24, 2024 - Sale 2683

Sale 2683 - Lot 255

Price Realized: $ 3,750
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
Thomas, Dylan (1914-1953)
In Country Sleep and Other Poems, Signed First Edition.

New York: A New Directions Book, 1952.



First edition, limited issue, octavo, one of 5,000 copies printed on Kilmory paper; signed by Thomas in black ink on the front free flyleaf; illustrated with a photograph portrait of Thomas pasted to title; bound in green boards stamped with red; with the printed dust jacket, unclipped (four short closed tears to upper edge of jacket, spine lightly toned, some soiling to panels); 8 1/2 x 6 in.

This volume contains the first appearance of Dylan's most famous poem, "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night."