This is the 11th printing of the 1st edition of the book. Wikepedia comments: Under Milk Wood is a 1954 play for radio by Dylan Thomas, later adapted for the stage. A film version, Under Milk Wood directed by Andrew Sinclair, was released in 1972. An all-seeing narrator invites the audience to listen to the dreams and innermost thoughts of the inhabitants of an imaginary small Welsh village, Llareggub (which backwards is bugger all). They include Mrs Ogmore-Pritchard, relentlessly bossing her two dead husbands; Captain Cat, reliving his seafaring times; the two Mrs Dai Breads; Organ Morgan, obsessed with his music; and Polly Garter, pining for her dead lover. Later, the town wakes and, aware now of how their feelings affect whatever they do, we watch them go about their daily business.The fictional name Llareggub resembles other Welsh place names, which often begin with Llan- (meaning church), but is actually derived from reversing the phrase "bugger all". In early published editions of the play it was often rendered (contrary to Thomas's wishes) as Llaregyb (as utilized by Sheila Waters calligraphic text that it also held by the Sackner Archive. The geographical inspiration for the town has generated intense debate. Laugharne was the village where Dylan Thomas lived on and off from the thirties. This town was probably the inspiration for the people of Llareggub, although the topography of the town is thought to be based on New Quay, Ceredigion where Dylan was staying when he started writing the play seriously in 1944. Both towns use the Under Milk Wood connection to attract tourists, hence the rivalry, and The Dylan Thomas Trail has been opened in New Quay. More recent research has indicated that most of the first half of the play was written in South Leigh, Oxford, whilst the second half was mostly written in America in May 1953. Fewer than 300 lines were written in Laugharne.The name Llareggub was first used by Dylan Thomas in a short story "The Burning Baby" published in 1936. ('Death took hold of his sister's legs as she walked through the calf-high heather up the hill... She was to him as ugly as the sowfaced woman Llareggub who had taught him the terrors of the flesh.'). In the play the Rev Eli Jenkins writes a poem which describes Llareggub Hill and its "mystic tumulus". This was based on a lyrical description of Twmbarlwm's "mystic tumulus" in Monmouthshire that Thomas "lifted" from Arthur Machen's autobiography Far Off Things (1922). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.