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London : Faber & Faber, (1967). First edition : in the primary binding, lettered in gilt rather than silver. A collection of forty poems, five stories and a radio play.
Demy 8vo. 184pp. Original quarter red cloth, with grey cloth sides, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; some faint edge-spots; a hint of tanning to endpapers, but a very good and bright copy in the Berthold Wolpe dust-jacket (a design in red and grey on white) - just lightly used and very faintly tanned. Sagar & Tabor A12a.i.

£100

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London : Poetry Society, [1969]. First edition : the programme for a Society anniversary recital and exhibition. With poems by Basil Bunting, Spike Hawkins (2), Ted Hughes (2), Christopher Logue, Hugh MacDiarmid, Brian Patten, Tom Pickard (2), William Plomer and Stevie Smith.
Foolscap 4to. 48pp. Portrait photographs. Advertisements. Original white stapled wraps, lettered and decorated on upper wrap in orange and purple in a design by Timothy Epps; very lightly spotted and browned, but a very good copy. Sagar & Tabor B42.

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Worcester : Three Choirs Festival, (1972). First edition. The festival programme, including Ted Hughes' "The New World" sequence - six poems, of which five were previously unpublished.
Crown 4to. 126pp. Original white wraps, printed in orange and purple; a touch sunned, very slightly bruised, but a very good copy. Sagar & Tabor B60.

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London : Words Press, [1976]. First edition : limited to 200 numbered copies. A folding broadside, with poems by Lyman Andrews, Ted Hughes, Edwin Morgan (2) and Jeremy Reed. With an illustration by Patricia Moynagh.
Post 8vo. Single beige sheet, printed in black, folding to form four leaves; very faint bruise at one corner, but near fine. Sagar & Tabor B80.

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New York : Viking Press, (1978). First trade edition (the American issue of the British sheets), preceded by the 1975 limited edition - although so much expanded and revised as to constitute almost a new work. A collection of twenty-nine poems, with striking illustrations by Leonard Baskin.
Oblong demy 4to. (64)pp. Illustrations. Original black cloth, lettered down spine in gilt; a few faint marks, but a nice copy in the original Baskin dust-jacket - a design in black and red on sand - just lightly marked, faintly nicked and slightly scuffed on upper panel.

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London : Rainbow Press, (1978 [i.e. 1979]). First edition : limited to 200 numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes. A collection of seventeen poems, designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press, and with a frontispiece and press device by Leonard Baskin.
Foolscap 4to. [iv],(28),[iv]pp. Original full blue calf, with two raised bands, lettered up spine in gilt, by Gray of Cambridge; top edge gilt; floral Japanese paper endleaves; spine a little sunned (as seems inevitable with this book), but otherwise a fine copy in the original blue cloth slip-case. Sagar & Tabor A59.

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[Bideford] : Sunstone Press, (1987). First edition : one of the 1,750 regular copies (of 2,000). This copy inscribed, signed and dated (Christmas 1987) by Ted Hughes on front free endpaper. A collection of twenty-eight animal poems, richly illustrated with full page colour images by Reginald James Lloyd. The first and seemingly the only publication of Hughes and Lloyd's Sunstone Press.
Foolscap 8vo. [vi],[58]pp - numbered 1-(29) on rectos only. Original blue cloth, ruled and lettered in gilt on upper cover; a fine copy in the original Lloyd dust-jacket - a pictorial design lettered in black on tan - also fine.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1998). First edition. His swansong - the eighty-eight haunting poems addressed to the dead Sylvia Plath.
Demy 8vo. (x),(198)pp. Original blue boards, lettered on spine in cream; a very good copy indeed in the brightly-coloured Frieda Hughes dust-jacket.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1999). First edition. Hughes' rendition of the Euripides play, with added material of his own.
Post 8vo. [vi],(84),[vi]pp. Original maroon boards, lettered on spine in yellow; very mild bruise at head of spine, otherwise near fine in the original colour-printed dust-jacket - the lettering in yellow and white.

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