COLLECTED POEMS: 1945–1990.

Recent craft binding of full morocco embellished in bronze and silver, depicting a house in the countryside, with gilt titles to the spine. In a half dark green buckram and light green paper-covered felt-lined solander box, with gilt titles on a light green paper label to the backstrip. With a copy of the poem 'The Musician' printed in black on a single leaf of green paper loosely laid in. A very good copy or better copy, the binding square and firm with a little toning to the spine and a few light marks. The contents, spotted to the text block edge and variously throughout, are otherwise clean and without inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the near fine, structurally sound solander box, that has a couple of light marks to the fore-edge.

First published in 1993 to mark the poet's eightieth birthday, this remains the standard collected R. S. Thomas, including the contents of individual volumes from 'The Stones of the Field' (1946) through to 'Experimenting with an Amen' (1986). "From the beginning, R. S. Thomas was determined to follow his own path and this extraordinary book bears witness to that" (Stephen Knight for The Times Literary Supplement, 1993).