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THOMAS, DYLAN. 18 Poems. London: The Fortune Press, [c. 1942]. Green cloth, uncut, spine faded, yellow dust jacket printed in red (soiled and worn). Second edition, apparently later issue, WITH PENCILLED ANNOTATIONS by Thomas on three pages in pencil: a stanza on p. 9 marked "omitted," two possible one-word revisions on p. 20, and a line deleted on p. 23 -- The Map of Love. London, [1939]. Mauve cloth, gilt-lettered, dust jacket (a little worn, strengthened on verso). FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE (one of 1000 copies), THE PUBLISHER DENT'S FILE COPY, with perforated (one on title-page) and rubber stamps, etc., reading "File Copy" and with printed "File Copy" label at inside front cover giving price and publication date; with pencilled marking and revisions in an editorial hand (mainly writing the first lines as the titles of the numbered poems on the first 24 pages) for a new edition or book -- [THOMAS]. JONES, GWYN. The Buttercup Field and Other Stories. Cardiff [Whales]: Penmark Press, [1945]. Green cloth, rubbed and stained, rear free endpaper lacking. FIRST EDITION, THOMAS'S COPY with his ink signature on front free endpaper and conceiveably some pencilled and crayon markings and scrawled words by him on endpaper and a few pages. Jones was a fellow Welsh writer and a friend and admirer of Thomas from the 1930s -- [THOMAS]. WILLIAMS, OSCAR. The Man Coming Toward You. New York, 1940. Cloth, bit faded. FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY TO THOMAS, inscribed by Williams on front free endpaper "...with all good wishes...Election Day, U.S.A." (1944). Together 4 volumes, 8vo, original cloth. (4)