HUGHES (Ted).

Birthday Letters.

First edition, number 194 of 300 numbered copies signed by the author. 8vo. Original quarter black cloth over blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. London, Faber and Faber, 1998.

£700.00

Signed by the author to the limitation page. The collection was published only months before Hughes’ death, and contains previously unpublished poems pertaining variously to his wife Sylvia Plath. It was awarded the Forward Poetry Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize for Poetry, the Whitbread Poetry Prize, and the Whitbread British Book of the Year Prize.

A fine copy.

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253799