Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices
London: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1954.
Advance proof of the first edition. ix, 101 pp. Self-bound in what would be the dust jacket for the first edition, with "advance proofs only" rubber-stamped on front cover. Very Good with slight lean to binding, light sunning to spine, light edge wear, several small wax droplets to front cover and faint foxing to textblock edges. Very scarce in this format. The Welsh poet's radio play that takes place in a fictional, decaying Welsh fishing village called Llareggub, an anagram for "bugger all". Set over a 24-hour pub crawl, Thomas evokes an unconventional narrative amongst his character's inner dialogues and dreams. Commissioned by the BBC and first performed in May 1953, Thomas himself read several roles just months before his death. It has since been performed many times, most notably by Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta Jones.
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