Accession number
PML 195993
Creator
Thomas, Dylan, 1914-1953.
Published
London : J.M. Dent & Sons, 1946.
Credit line
Purchased on the Edwin Erbe Fund, 2013.
Notes
"First published 1946."
Description
66 p. ; 15 x 11 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
An elaborate full-page drawing by Thomas on the front free endpaper depicts a bar scene (probably the famous Fitzroy Tavern, the social center of London's artistic underground and haunt of the hard-drinking Hamnett and Thomas) that includes a self-caricature of the author among the half-baked denizens. The rear free endpaper has a full-page color drawing of Hamnett as a topless dancer and bears a birthday inscription presumably from John Malcolm Brinnin to Hamnett, whose February birthday coincided with the book's month of publication.
Provenance
Nina Hamnet, inscribed by Dylan and Brinnin to her; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from James S. Jaffe, November 2013.
Binding
Bound in orange cloth with orange dustjacket. A few tears in dust jacket.
Classification
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Department