Ceri Richards: Drawings to Poems by Dylan Thomas

Artist: Ceri Richards 
Author: Dylan Thomas, Richard Burns (intro.) 
Publisher: Enitharmon Press
Date: 1980 
Condition: A first edition hardback, with paper-covered boards showing reproductions of Richard's drawings and a gilt-embossed black spine, in a cream linen slipcase decorated with further printed reproductions of Richard's drawings. There are some very light shelf-markings to the slipcase. Internally, this book is in very good condition, clean, tight and unmarked

This publication is a reproduction of Richard's drawings made in a copy of Dylan Thomas' Collected Poems 1934-52.

Richards and the poet only met once, in Laugharne in 1953, shortly before Thomas' final trip to America. They had planned a joint exhibition and poetry event to take place at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery in Swansea on Thomas' return from America but as we know, he did not return. This copy of Thomas' Collected Poems which Richards illustrated with his own drawings includes a note that the 'Drawings made on November 7-8-'53. Unknown to Richards, on the other side of the Atlantic, his countryman was to die the following day, 9th November 1953.