In Country Sleep and Other Poems

The US edition is the true first — an uncommon case for Thomas. New Directions, New York, 1952 is the only separate edition of this title; no separate UK edition of In Country Sleep has been traced in dealer or library records consulted. In Britain the six poems appeared within Collected Poems 1934–1952 (J. M. Dent, London, 1952), a collected volume rather than a competing first of this title. Within the New Directions edition, the signed limited issue of 100 copies and the trade issue of 5,000 are both dated 1952; firm priority between the two is not documented in the sources consulted.