Deaths and Entrances

Dent (London), 1946 is the only first edition of this collection. No separately published American edition is recorded: an Open Library sweep of the title returns Dent imprints only (plus much later fine-press printings), and no US issue appears in the trade. American readers met these poems — including "Fern Hill" and "A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" — in New Directions' Selected Writings of Dylan Thomas (New York, 1946) and later in Collected Poems 1934–1952 (New Directions, 1953). Those are "first thus" books and are not first editions of Deaths and Entrances; the census claim is confirmed.