A Child's Christmas in Wales
London, Toronto, Melbourne: Dent, 1978. Edward ARDIZZONE. Boards. [HOLIDAY][CHRISTMAS]. Edward ARDIZZONE, illustrator.
First edition thus. 8vo; 45pp; color pictorial boards with children throwing snowballs on the front and a woman with two cats on rear, “£3.50 net UK price”; watercolor endpapers; vignette of a child sleeping on title page; illustration throughout; clipped color pictorial dust jacket with two old small repairs at head and tail of spine, light age-toning of dj; fine in very good plus dj. ISBN 0-460-06868-7. Fine / very good +. Item #1742
Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) was a Welsh poet who also worked as a journalist, and whose BBC radio broadcasts brought him to the public’s attention. In this story, he tells of a young boy’s Christmas.
Price: $145.00