THOMAS (DYLAN)The Map of Love. Verse and Prose, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to "Leo & John... from Dylan Thomas Oxford 1941" in pencil on the front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's purple cloth, spine faded, 8vo, J.M. Dent, [1939]FootnotesINSCRIBED WITH DYLAN THOMAS'S "DRUNKEN SIGNATURE" for an Oxford University student. It seems probable that the book was signed when Thomas gave a talk at the English Club at Oxford in November 1941, an event hosted by Philip Larkin, who recalled Dylan at the event as a "Hell of a fine man: little, snubby, hopelessly pissed bloke who made hundreds of cracks and read parodies of everybody in appropriate voices".
Provenance: Francis Leo Clark (1920-1998), ink ownership inscription "Leo Clark, St. Pet. H., Oxon", dated 4 November 1941, inside upper cover, with loosely inserted ink label "F.L. Clark". Clark, later a barrister and circuit judge, was a student at St. Peter's Hall (now College), Oxford University in 1941 when this book was signed.
THOMAS (DYLAN)The Map of Love. Verse and Prose, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR to "Leo & John... from Dylan Thomas Oxford 1941" in pencil on the front free endpaper, frontispiece portrait, publisher's purple cloth, spine faded, 8vo, J.M. Dent, [1939]FootnotesINSCRIBED WITH DYLAN THOMAS'S "DRUNKEN SIGNATURE" for an Oxford University student. It seems probable that the book was signed when Thomas gave a talk at the English Club at Oxford in November 1941, an event hosted by Philip Larkin, who recalled Dylan at the event as a "Hell of a fine man: little, snubby, hopelessly pissed bloke who made hundreds of cracks and read parodies of everybody in appropriate voices".
Provenance: Francis Leo Clark (1920-1998), ink ownership inscription "Leo Clark, St. Pet. H., Oxon", dated 4 November 1941, inside upper cover, with loosely inserted ink label "F.L. Clark". Clark, later a barrister and circuit judge, was a student at St. Peter's Hall (now College), Oxford University in 1941 when this book was signed.
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