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London : Faber & Faber, (1963). First edition. His first prose work - eleven Kiplingesque stories on the real manner of evolution of the owl, whale, fox, polar bear, hyena, tortoise, bee, cat, donkey, hare and elephant. Illustrations by George Adamson.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). 72pp. Six full-page illustrations. Original blue canvas, lettered down spine in gilt; a few tiny spots, but a very good copy in the dust-jacket - a pictorial Adamson design in blue, pink and black - just very lightly worn, a touch sunned at spine, and with publisher's price revision over-sticker on flap - but also very good. Sagar & Tabor A6a.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1963). First edition. An early collection of twenty-three poems, including "Moon-Tulips", "Moon-Freaks" and "The Dracula Vine". Not published in the USA.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). 46,[ii]pp. Striking full-page illustrations by Rolf Brandt (1906-1986). Original blue cloth, lettered in gilt; a very good, bright and clean copy indeed, in a just faintly sunned dust-jacket, with a single tiny nick. Sagar A7.

£200

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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 (23cm). 184pp. Original quarter red cloth, with grey cloth sides, blocked and lettered on spine in gilt; a hint of tanning to endpapers, but a very good and bright copy in the Berthold Wolpe dust-jacket - design in red and grey on white - just lightly used and slightly tanned. With the 1969 ownership inscription of Brian Morse. Sagar & Tabor A12a.i.

£100

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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 The festival programme, including Ted Hughes' "The New World" sequence - six poems, of which five were previously unpublished.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 wrappers, printed in orange and purple; a touch sunned, very slightly bruised, but a very good copy. Sagar & Tabor B60.

£25

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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.

£25

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London : Chatto & Windus, 1978. First edition. Twenty-two poems for children, including "Nessie", "Horrible Song", etc.
Narrow demy 8vo (23cm). 32pp. Original laminated boards in a colourful design by Charles Keeping; tiny bruise at head, but a very good copy. Sagar & Tabor A54.

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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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London : Faber & Faber, (1979). First edition : [one of 2,000 copies in hardback]. A major collection of 125 poems.
Demy 8vo (23cm). (172),[iv]pp. Without the separately printed errata slip. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin (with an additional one by Hughes himself). Original red cloth, lettered down spine in green and gilt; some tanning to text (as always), but otherwise a fine and bright copy in the original Baskin dust-jacket - a design in green, black and red - also fine. Sagar & Tabor A67.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1986). First edition. A collection of seventeen poems, with striking full-colour illustrations by Leonard Baskin.
Narrow demy 8vo. (64)pp - including integral endpapers. Coloured illustrations. Original blue boards, ruled and lettered on spine in gilt; the merest hint of tanning, but a very good copy in the original colour printed dust-jacket, lettered in black on yellow and white panels.

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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, (1988). First edition. Ten creation tales for children - God makes the animals in divers ways.
Royal 8vo (25cm). [vi],(122)pp. Illustrations by Andrew Davidson. Original black boards, lettered in white; label removed from front free endpaper, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket - also very good. Ownership stamp of J. & T. Harbutt & Co. Ltd. of Exeter.

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London : Faber & Faber, (1995). First edition. A collection of nine short stories - one previously unpublished and another previously unpublished in book form.
Post 8vo (21cm). (x),(160),[iv]pp. Original boards; a very good copy indeed - also very good indeed.

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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 (23cm). (x),(198)pp. Original blue boards, lettered on spine in cream; very faint tanning of edges, but a very good copy indeed in the brightly-coloured Frieda Hughes dust-jacket.

£50

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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.

£15

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