Dylan Thomas: 'Under Milk Wood', London, J.M. Dent, 1954, 1s...

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£150

Dylan Thomas: 'Under Milk Wood', London, J.M. Dent, 1954, 1st edition, ownership signature "John R.H. Yeoman March 1954" to front pastedown, m/s note in his hand verso title page "The name of the town, as written by Dylan Thomas, was Llaregub.", original cloth gilt (generally VGC), dust wrapper (slightly worn, 8s 6d price intact); W.S. Graham: 'The Nightfishing', L, Faber, 1955, 1st edition, tipped in typed page of beginnings of poems by W.S. Graham, this signed & inscribed by Graham at foot "Dear John Yeoman, It's good to believe in good beginnings WS Graham C.W.", the page with typed heading "WS Graham First Lines of poems - 1940.", but with "First Lines" crossed through and amended in pen & ink by Graham to "Beginnings", beneath are nine typed opening stanzas of poems, these ranging from between one and five lines, with manuscript ruled lines between, including

"As if in an instant parapets of plants
Would squander the tricks of summer
And sprout in a madman's enterprise,
My leashed pigeon in theatres of hawks
Creeps down the bowback rafters to my hair."

etc etc, ownership signature of John R.H. Yeoman to front pastedown, orig. cloth gilt, dust wrapper (worn with part losses); George Barker, 3 titles: 'A Vision of Beasts and Gods', L, Faber, 1954, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'Collected Poems 1930-1955', L, Faber, 1957, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The View from a Blind I', L, Faber, 1962, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w; Vernon Watkins, 3 titles: 'The Death Bell', L, Faber, 1954, orig. cloth gilt, d/w, 'Cypress and Acacia', L, Faber, 1959, 1st edition, orig. cloth, d/w, 'The Breaking of the Wave', Ipswich, Golgonooza Press, 1979, 1st edition, original printed wraps. From the estate of John Richard Harding Yeoman (1916-1988), Copy Writer and Director for several Advertising Agencies, Assistant Secretary (Publicity) for the Council for the Protection of Rural England, Borough Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea, Governor of the Chelsea School of Art, and lover of art, poetry and books. John Yeoman’s first wife was Antonia Yeoman, née Beryl Antonia Thompson (1907-1970), the Australian-English commercial artist, cartoonist and illustrator who worked under the name “Anton” (8)