Hodder & Stoughton, 1972. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed by the author to title page Meticulously researched dramatisation of the true story of the 1821 hanging of the working class martyr Dic Penderyn, in Merthyr Tydfil. There is some discolouration to text block edges. The jacket.....
Victor Gollancz, 1959-1969. Edition: 1st UK, 1st and 2nd impressions. Book Condition: Very good. Very rare, highly collectable and desirable set of the first three novels in what became known as the Mortymer saga. Through several generations of this family, Cordell skilfully paints a very vivid picture of the nascent.....
Gollancz, 1965. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fair. Novel based on Cordell's experiences in the Far East. he is best known for his 'Welsh' novels, especially Rape of the Fair Country. This is an ex library copy, so some sticker marks. Some foxing and tanning to page edges.....
Penguin, 1993. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Contains stories from the top anglo-Welsh writers of the twentieth century and thus an excellent representation of the development of Welsh writing in English. The text block edges are a little grubby; slight front lean to book. The jacket has just.....
Parthian, 2016. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed by author to title page. Wales Book of the Year 2017 and reissued by Parthian to coincide with a stage production. This is an extraordinary book about ordinary things - people, place, language and culture. Very rare signed.....
London: Dent, 1954. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. Collection of Thomas' broadcast work in a very attractive little volume in fine condition with no marks or inscriptions, binding clean and tight and unclipped jacket suffering only small losses to the spine top and bottom and a little.....
Triton, 1965. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Thomas wrote this as the basis for a film screenplay so, as read, the reader is supposed to picture the action unfurling in front of them. It was finally made into a film in 1992 with Peter O'Toole. It.....
Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1965. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Written through the voice of a retired Methodist minister - of the Welsh Calvinist variety - Humphreys asks us to dig deep in considering notions of life, good and truth. This is a very good hardback example.....
National Museum of Wales, 2018. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. The unique tale of how, in the early twentieth century, two deeply religious but very wealthy heiresses turned their remote mid Wales manor house into an artistic haven. Gregynog became the place to be for fashionable luminaries.....
London: Gollancz, 1975. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Good. Ex lib apparently, due to endpapers excised neatly but no other discernible marks. Extremely rare in this original Gollancz format, Moffat's tale of rivalries in a North Wales mountain rescue team. Jacket intact, unclipped.
Hutchinson, 1964. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. As usual, Thomas crosses, for him, the easy boundary between truth and fiction in this collection of observations, essays and stories around various aspects of Welsh history, geography and sociology. To all of these he brings his usual deft.....
London: Macmillan, 1970. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Near fine. Near fine copy of this foray - according to the blurb - into the "foreign country" that is the "dour and secret land" of North Wales - the Cymraeg heartland that is to say, very different from dressed-up.....
Gollancz, 1962. Edition: 1st US, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. For a while, Menna Gallie was a 'forgotten' novelist - being Welsh and a woman didn't help her much in London publishing circles. Nevertheless, with a revived interest in Welsh writing encouraged by initiatives such as the Writers of.....
New York: Harper, 1959; 1962. Edition: 1st US editions 1st impressions (both). Book Condition: Very good. This is a rare offering of this Welsh writer's two 'mining' novels, which have gone on to define her work in several later re-editions. These books are scarce in a first edition state in.....
Gollancz, 1959-1962. Edition: 1st UK 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. In trademark yellow Gollancz jackets, this is a very rare offering of this Welsh writer's first three novels, which have gone on to define her work in several later re-editions. These books are very scarce in their original first edition.....
Gollancz, 1968. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. For a while, Menna Gallie was a 'forgotten' novelist - being Welsh and a woman didn't help her much in London publishing circles. Nevertheless, with a revived interest in Welsh writing encouraged by initiatives such as the Writers of.....
Gollancz, 1970. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Fine. For a while, Menna Gallie was a 'forgotten' novelist - being Welsh and a woman didn't help her much in London publishing circles. Nevertheless, with a revived interest in Welsh writing encouraged by initiatives such as the Writers of Wales.....
Montgomeryshire Printing Co./Rupert Hart-Davis, 1952/1958. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression. Book Condition: Very good. Superb and rare set. The first booklet is only the second of Thomas' published collections and, as such, was produced in small quantities in Newtown, mid Wales. The early impressions sold out very quickly and thus.....
London: Rupert Hart-Davis, 1963. Edition: 1st edition, 1st impression. Book Condition: FIne. The eighth of Thomas' poetry collections and by which time he was an established poet. Containing well-known works such as Afforestation, Welsh Border and The Survivors. Book in fine condition with just a tiny bump to the spine.....
Rupert Hart-Davis, 1967. Edition: 1st UK, 3rd impression. Book Condition: Fine. A very attractive example of Thomas' fifth collection of poems, published when he was then becoming an established poet in Britain but coming from a very well-defined place in Wales' growing output of Welsh writers in English. Kingsley Amis.....
Parthian, 2013. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed. Book Condition: Very good. Rhondda-born Trezise astounded and impressed with her debut collection of short stories, Fresh Apples, and follows up with this new collection. Scarce in this format. There is a hint to tanning to bottom edge.
Parthian, 2005. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impression, signed and dated. Book Condition: Near mint. Signed and dated September 2005 to title page. Author has written a joke underneath. Rhondda-born Trezise astounded and impressed with this debut collection of short stories. "No way was it rape or even molestation...she's fourteen, not.....
Readers Union/Chatto and Windus, 1962. Edition: Reprint. Book Condition: Very good. Nice reading copy of this seminal text about culture and society in South Wales. This is book is a nice, small and clean package. The first edition was published in 1960 and its popularity encouraged this club-style edition which.....
Chatto and Windus, 1978. Edition: 1st UK, 3rd impression, signed. Book Condition: Fine. Flat-signed by author to title page. Here, Williams extends into fiction his ideas on community, culture and society. This is a very presentable copy of this seminal text and forms the first in the "Welsh" trilogy. This.....
Chatto & Windus, 1960;1964;1969. Edition: 1st UK, 1st impressions, all. Book Condition: Very good. Williams was best known as a socialist intellectual and author of 'Culture and Society' (1958). He wrote extensive non-fiction on similar themes. His fiction work is defined by the acclaimed Border Country trilogy and its examination.....