Ted Hughes BETWEEN THE COVERS

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1 Ted Hughes BETWEEN THE COVERS

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3 MILLER, Karl, edited by. Poetry from Cambridge Swinford: Fantasy Press First edition. Wrappers. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Anthology with Ted Hughes' first book appearance, and four poems by Thom Gunn. A very nice copy. # $250 HUGHES, Ted. Groom's Dream. [Northampton, Massachusetts: Grecourt Review 1957]. First edition. Octavo. Original plain wrappers. Slight agetoning to the wrappers and one corner a trifle bumped, else fine. An offprint of a single poem, originally published in The Grecourt Review, an undergraduate publication at Smith College, where Hughes' wife, Sylvia Plath, was teaching at the time. This poem was later collected in Lupercal (1960) as "A Dream of Horses". *Sagar & Tabor C33.* # $500 HUGHES, Ted. The Hawk in the Rain. New York: Harper and Brothers (1957). First American edition (H-G on copyright page). Just about fine in very good dustwrapper with a little spotting on the front panel. Author's first book. # $300 HUGHES, Ted. The Hawk in the Rain. New York: Harper and Brothers (1957). Early printing ("I-G"). Fine in slightly spine-tanned, very good dustwrapper with a small hole on the edge of the spine, and a couple of tears. # $50

4 HUGHES, Ted. Roosting Hawk. [Northampton, Massachusetts: Smith College] / Grecourt Review [1959]. First edition. Octavo. Stapled printed gray wrappers with "Grecourt Review" on front cover. [4]pp. One corner slightly bumped, still fine.issued as an offprint from the Grecourt Review. Scarce. # $350 (HUGHES, Ted). Introduction: Stories by New Writers. London: Faber and Faber (1960). First edition. Erasure on front fly, else fine in a very good dustwrapper with a slightly jagged tear on the front panel. An early appearance by Ted Hughes, who contributes three stories. # $100 (Anthology) MITCHELL, Julian, John Fuller, William Donaldson, and Robin McLaren, editors. Light Blue, Dark Blue: An Anthology of Recent Writing from Oxford and Cambridge Universities. London: Macdonald First edition. Bookstore label front pastedown, else fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. Includes work by Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Reynolds Price, and Dennis Potter, among others. # $50 HUGHES, Ted. Lupercal. New York: Harper and Row (1960). First American edition, first issue. Bookplate front pastedown, else fine in very slightly agetoned dustwrapper, with a tiny, faint stain at the foot, but which is otherwise about fine. One of 750 copies. # $225

5 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Meet My Folks!. London: Faber and Faber (1961). First edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a little rubbing. Contemporary owner names on the front fly, under which is a Signed sentiment from the author: "with good wishes, Ted Hughes." The author s third book and first book of children s verse. A very nice copy. # $1,500 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Meet My Folks. Indianapolis and New York: Bobbs Merrill (1973). First American edition. Illustrated by Mila Lazarevich. Oblong quarto. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear at the crown. The author s third book and first book of children s verse. A very attractive copy. # $150 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Meet My Folks!. London: Faber and Faber (1987). Revised edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Fine in wrappers. The author s third book and first book of children s verse. # $15 (Poetry) WHEELOCK, John Hall. Best Poems of 1961: Borestone Mountain Poetry Awards Palo Alto, CA: Pacific Books First edition. Upper edges a bit darkened, else fine in good, torn dustwrapper. The fourteenth annual issue, Signed twice by John Hall Wheelock by his contributions, and also featuring works by Ted Hughes, Archibald MacLeish and John Ciardi. # $35

6 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber (1963). Uncorrected proof. Illustrated by George Adamson. Wrappers. A little smudging on the front wrap, else near fine. Stories for children. Very scarce in this format. # $950 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. How the Whale Became and Other Stories. London: Faber and Faber (1963). First edition. Illustrated by George Adamson. Thin octavo. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a rubbed mark on the front panel, still a remarkably fresh copy. Stories for children. # $300 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People. London: Faber and Faber (1963). Uncorrected proof. Illustrations by R.A. Brandt. Wrappers. A touch of age-toning, near fine. Uncommon format. # $500 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. The Earth-Owl and Other Moon-People. London: Faber and Faber (1963). First edition. Illustrations by R.A. Brandt. Fine in very slightly age-toned, just about fine dustwrapper with a single tiny tear. # $75

7 DOUGLAS, Keith. Selected Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1964). First edition. Edited and with an introduction by Ted Hughes. Fine in fine dustwrapper with very slight toning, a very attractive copy. # $100 NICHOLSON, Norman and others. Writers on Themselves: Norman Nicholson, Rebecca West, William Sansom, Emanuel Litvinoff, Vernon Scannell, Thomas Hinde, John Bowen, Richard Murphy, Michael Baldwin, Julian Mitchell, Ted Hughes, David Storey, (London): British Broadcasting Sylvia Plath. Corporation (1964). First edition. 12mo. An introduction by Herbert Read. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Contributors are: Norman Nicholson, Rebecca West, William Sansom, Emanuel Litvinoff, Vernon Scannell, Thomas Hinde, John Bowen, Richard Murphy, Michael Baldwin, Julian Mitchell, Ted Hughes, David Storey, and Sylvia Plath. # $75 (Anthology) (HUGHES, Ted and others). Moments of Truth: Nineteen Short Poems by Living Poets. London: The Keepsake Press First edition. Stapled stiff wrappers, with quarter hand-decorated paste-paper overlay. Poetry by George Barker, Martin Bell, John Betjeman, Edwin Brock, Robert Conquest, Gavin Ewart, Roy Fuller, Thom Gunn, Bernard Gutteridge, Francis Hope, Ted Hughes, Edward Lowbury, Kathleen Nott, Peter Porter, Peter Redgrove, James Reeves, Peter Russell, David Wevill, and Hugo Williams. A trifle rubbed at the spine fold, else fine. Each represented poet was given twelve copies, and 100 were offered for sale. This is one of the 100. # $45

8 (ELIOT, T.S., Sylvia Plath). Poetry Book Society Bulletin No. 44. (London: The Poetry Book Society) Broadsheet. A single sheet printed both sides. Fine. Includes a memoriam for T.S. Eliot by Stephen Spender, and an article on Plath's *Ariel* by Ted Hughes. # $200 (HUGHES, Ted). A Tribute To Austin Clarke On His Seventieth Birthday, 9 May (Dublin): Dolmen Press (1966). First edition. Small quarto. Fine in wrappers. One of 1000 copies. With contributions from Hughes, Thomas Kinsella, John Montague, Charles Tomlinson, among others. *Sagar & Tabor B31.* # $85 HUGHES, Ted. Recklings. (London): Turret Books (1966). First edition. Top corner a trifle bumped, else fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 150 numbered copies Signed by the poet. # $500 HUGHES, Ted. The Burning of the Brothel. London: Turret Books (1966). First edition. Fine in fine wrappers and fine dustwrapper. One of 75 numbered copies Signed by the author, of a total edition of 300 copies. # $350

9 HUGHES, Ted. The Burning of the Brothel. London: Turret Books (1966). First edition. Fine in fine wrappers and fine dustwrapper. One of 225 unnumbered copies of a total edition of 300 copies. # $150 PLATH, Sylvia. Tri-Quarterly, Number Seven, Fall 1966: Womanly Issue: The Art of Sylvia Plath. (no place-evanston): (no publishernorthwesten University Press) First edition, number seven, fall Near fine, with foxing on the wrappers and throughout the pages in wrappers. Selected poems and essays on the work of Sylvia Plath by Ted Hughes, A.E. Dyson, and others. # $30 HUGHES, Ted. Animal Poems. (Bow, Crediton, Devon: Richard Gilbertson 1967). First edition. Small quarto. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. One of 63 numbered copies (of a total edition of 100) Signed by Hughes. # $400 (HUGHES, Ted and others). One Little- Press Year: A Portfolio from Poet & Printer. London: Poet & Printer First edition thus. Four pamphlets, each a first edition, housed in sleeves in a wrappered portfolio, with additional text bound in. Octavo. Fine. The four pamphlets are Peter Redgrove *The Sermon*; Christopher Logue *The Words of the Establishment Songs etcetera, Five Quiet Shouters* (with Redgrove, Angela Carter, and three others); and Ted Hughes *Scapegoats and Rabies*. # $375

10 LARKIN, Philip, Thom Gunn, R.S. Thomas, Ted Hughes. Four: Critical Quarterly Poetry Supplement, Number 9. (England: Hull Printers Limited no date- circa 1967). First edition. Stapled wrappers. 24pp. Selected by C.B. Cox and A.E. Dyson. Fine. # $25 (Anthology) HUGHES, Ted. Poetry in the Making: An Anthology of Poems and Programmes from Listening and Writing. London: Faber and Faber (1967). First edition. Without dustwrapper as issued. Usual wrinkles to the lamination on the boards, else fine. # $50 (Poetry). Poetry International '67. London: The Poetry Book Society Program. Folio. Stapled decorated self-wrappers. (8)pp. Fine. Program includes the program schedule, and photographs and brief biographies of the participants including W.H. Auden, Robert Graves, Anne Sexton, Ted Hughes, John Berryman, Pablo Neruda, Charles Olson, Allen Ginsberg, and others, as well as groovy Sixties typographical design. # $50 HUGHES, Ted. Scapegoats and Rabies a poem in five parts. London: Poet & Printer First edition. 12mo. Wrappers. Fine. One of a little more than 400 copies printed. *Sagar & Tabor A11.* # $50

11 PHILIP, Jim, John Simpson, and Nicholas Snowman, Edited by. The Best London: Secker & of Granta Warburg (1967). First Edition. Fine in a nearly fine dustwrapper with a light bit of browning on edges. Includes contributions by A.A. Milne, Ian Hay, and E. M. Forster as well as poems by Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath. # $25 HUGHES, Ted. Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber (1967). Uncorrected proof. Printed wrappers. Just about fine. # $350 HUGHES, Ted. Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber (1967). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $475

12 HUGHES, Ted. Wodwo. London: Faber and Faber (1967). First edition. Small ownership label of author John Hadfield front pastedown, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight tanning to the spine. # $150 HUGHES, Ted. Wodwo. New York: Harper and Row (1967). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $150 MAY, Derwent, edited by. Good Talk: An Anthology from BBC Radio. London: Victor Gollancz First edition. Near fine with spine ends bumped in near fine dustwrapper with spine ends lightly worn. Contributors include A. J. Ayer, Reyner Banham, Sir Gavin de Beer, Max Beloff, Colin Buchanan, René Cutforth, James Dale, Robert Gittings, Ted Hughes, Sir Bernard Lovell, Christopher Sykes, and Frank Tuohy. # $25 HUGHES, Ted. Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices. Devon: Richard Gilbertson [1969]. First edition. Printed wrappers. Faint ink stroke, and faint crease to one corner of the front wrap, near fine. One of 500 numbered copies, this is one of 150 copies signed by the author, without further manuscript in his hand (the first 37 copies had poems or poem fragments written out in the author's hand). # $100

13 HUGHES, Ted. Seneca's Oedipus adapted by Ted Hughes. London: Faber and Faber (1969). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with just a touch of age-toning. A lovely copy. # $300 HUGHES, Ted. A Crow Hymn. Frensham: The Sceptre Press First edition. Stapled printed wrappers. Fine. One of 74 numbered copies (of a total edition of 100), this copy unnumbered. # $375 HUGHES, Ted. A Few Crows. Exeter: The Rougemont Press First edition. Illustrated by Reiner Burger. Fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 75 numbered copies, this copy Signed by the author. # $450 HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber (1970). Uncorrected proof. Slight age-toning, very near fine in wrappers. # $500

14 HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber (1970). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful, as new copy. # $1,500 HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. New York: Harper & Row (1971). First American edition, hardcover issue. A modest stain on the foredge and the edge of the rear flap, else near fine in an about near fine dustwrapper with a few modest stains and some overall age-toning. Signed by the poet. # $950 HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber (1973). First edition thus, with three additional poems. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Folio. Fine in fine slipcase, and original publisher's cardboard packaging. One of 400 numbered copies Signed by both Hughes and Baskin. # $1,100

15 HUGHES, Ted. Crow: From the Life and Songs of the Crow. London: Faber and Faber (1972). First edition thus, adding seven poems to the 1970 first edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $200 HUGHES, Ted. Lupercal. London: Faber and Faber (1970). Paperback issue. Near fine copy. # $10 New American Review: Number 8. New York: Signet Books (1970). First edition. Near fine, lightly worn in wrappers. Contribution from Ted Hughes, among others. # $10 HUGHES, Ted. The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays. London: Faber and Faber (1970). Uncorrected proof. # $400 Fine in printed wrappers.

16 HUGHES, Ted. The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays. London: Faber and Faber (1970). First edition. Slight offsetting to the endpapers from the jacket flaps, fine in fine dustwrapper. One of 2000 copies. A beautiful copy. # $100 HUGHES, Ted. The Coming of the Kings: A Christmas Play in One Act. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Co. (1972). First separate edition; previously published in *The Coming of the Kings and Other Plays* (London: Faber, 1970). 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 1025 copies printed. *Sagar & Tabor A35.* # $60 HUGHES, Ted and Gordon CROSSE. London: The Demon of Adachigahara. Oxford University Press Circa First edition. Near fine in wrappers. # $85 HUGHES, Ted. The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar. (Bow, Crediton, Devon: Manuscript Series 1970). First separate edition, first issue, withdrawn owing to the transposition of two lines of the poem and the poet's disapproval of the wrappers.quarto. Riveted pictorial marbled wrappers. Fine. One of about 100 copies thus. *Sagar & Tabor A21a.I.* As this issue was never officially released, most copies were unnumbered and unsigned, although the bibliographers note one exception which we presume to be the poet's own annotated copy. # $750

17 (Anthology) COUZYN, Jeni, edited by. Twelve to Twelve. Poetry D-Day Camden Festival London: Poets Trust First edition. Octavo. Wrappers. Fine. Contains poems by Ted Hughes, Stevie Smith, George MacBeth, Peter Redgrove, Adrian Henri, Lee Harwood, Tom Pickard, Michael Hamburger, Edward Lucie-Smith, Seamus Heaney, Jon Silkin, and William Plomer. # $35 HUGHES, Ted. Crow Wakes. Woodford Green: Poet and Printer First edition. Quarter Japanese vellum and papercovered boards. Fine. One of 200 copies, according to the bibliographer, about 30 additional copies were printed. # $225 HUGHES, Ted, Ruth Fainlight, and Alan Sillitoe. Poems. London: Rainbow Press First edition. Full green calf decorated in gilt. Fine in fine unprinted acetate dustwrapper and lightly worn, very good or better slipcase. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by all three authors. # $250 HUGHES, Ted. Selected Poems New York: Harper and Row (1972). First American edition. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a short tear on the front panel. # $45

18 HUGHES, Ted. Selected Poems: London: Faber and Faber (1972). First wrappered edition. A trifle rubbed, still fine in wrappers. # $20 SAXTON, Martha, edited by. Works in Progress: Number Five. New York: The Literary Guild of America (1972). First edition. Mass market paperback. Near fine with very light stain on top edge of rear cover. Selections from: Oscar Lewis; Ted Hughes; Lorraine Hansberry; Yehudi Menuhin; L. Woiwode; Sol Yurick; Lore Segal; and many more. # $18 HUGHES, Ted. Prometheus on his Crag. London: Rainbow Press First Edition. Full purple morocco. Frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. Just a touch of rubbing, easily fine in fine slipcase. One of 160 numbered copies Signed by both Hughes at the limitation statement and Baskin at his illustration. # $650 HUGHES, Ted. Beauty and The Beast. A Play in One Act. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company (1974). First separate edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 1045 copies printed. *Sagar & Tabor A41.* Fine copies are uncommon. # $125

19 HUGHES, Ted. Sean, the Fool, the Devil and the Cats. A Play in One Act. Chicago: Dramatic Publishing Company (1974). First separate edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 1036 copies printed. *Sagar & Tabor A42.* # $75 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. The Tiger's Bones and Other Plays for Children. New York: Viking Press (1974). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $150 HUGHES, Ted. Eclipse. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press (1976). First edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. Copy number 11 of 50 numbered copies signed by Hughes, out of a total edition of 250 copies printed. *Sagar & Tabor A49.* # $350 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Moon-Whales and Other Moon Poems. New York: The Viking Press First American edition. Illustrations by Leonard Baskin. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. # $50

20 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Moon-Whales. London: Faber and Faber (1988). First edition with these illustrations. Illustrations by Chris Riddell. Fine in lightly rubbed, near fine dustwrapper with a touch of rubbing. # $45 HUGHES, Ted. Season Songs. London: Faber and Faber (1976). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $100 (HUGHES, Ted). Words Broadsheet Twenty Five. London: Words Press (1976). First edition. Drawing by Patricia Moynagh. Contributors: Lyman Andrews, Ted Hughes, Edwin Morgan, Jeremy Reed. Folio, folded into quarters. Fine. With Hughes' "The Virgin Knight". Limited to 200 copies; this one out of series (denoted H. C.). *Sagar & Tabor B80.* # $75 AMICHAI, Yehuda. Amen. New York: Harper and Row (1977). First edition, wrappered issue. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Faint bend on the front wrap, a very good copy. Inscribed by the author to another poet. # $50

21 HUGHES, Ted. Gaudete. London: Faber and Faber (1977). Uncorrected proof. Fine in wrappers. # $100 HUGHES, Ted. Gaudete. London: Faber and Faber (1977). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50 HUGHES, Ted. Gaudete. New York: Harper (1977). First American edition. Fine in fine, slightly spinetanned dustwrapper. # $25 PLATH, Sylvia. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and Other Prose Writings. London: Faber and Faber First edition. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy, and seldom found thus. # $200

22 PLATH, Sylvia. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams and Other Prose Writings. London: Faber and Faber First paperback edition. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Pages a trifle age-toned, still fine in wrappers. A beautiful, unread copy. # $30 HUGHES, Ted. Sunstruck. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press (1977). First edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Hughes (out of a total edition of 300 copies printed). *Sagar & Tabor A53.* # $100 HUGHES, Ted. A Solstice. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press (1978). First edition. 12mo. Printed wrappers. Fine. One of 100 numbered copies signed by Hughes, out of a total edition of 350 copies printed. *Sagar & Tabor A55.* # $250 HUGHES, Ted. Cave Birds: An Alchemical Cave Drama. New York: Viking Press (1978). First edition. Oblong quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $50

23 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Moon-Bells and Other Poems. London: Chatto & Windus First edition. Fine in laminated boards without a dustwrapper as issued. Poems for children. # $45 HUGHES, Ted. Moon-Bells and Other Poems. London: The Bodley Head (1986). First illustrated edition, with three additional poems. Illustrated by Felicity Roma Bowers. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy. # $40 HUGHES, Ted. Brooktrout. [No place]: Morrigu Press First edition. Broadside. 10 1/8" x 15 1/2". Illustrated by the poet. Fine. One of 60 numbered copies signed by Hughes. *Sagar & Tabor A62.* # $450 HUGHES, Ted. Four Tales told by an Idiot. Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press (1979). First edition. 12mo. Wrappers. errata slip laid in. One of 100 copies signed by Hughes (of a total edition of 450 copies). Fine. *Sagar & Tabor A63.* # $300

24 HUGHES, Ted. Henry Williamson: A Tribute by Ted Hughes given at the Service of Thanksgiving at the Royal Parish Church of St Martin-in-the-Fields, 1 December (London): Rainbow Press (1979). First edition. Small quarto. Wrappers. Fine. One of 200 numbered copies Signed by Hughes. # $200 HUGHES, Ted. Moortown. London: Faber and Faber (1979). First edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $80 HUGHES, Ted. Moortown. New York: Harper and Row (1979). Uncorrected proof of the first American edition. Fine in printed wrappers. # $125 HUGHES, Ted. Moortown. New York: Harper and Row (1979). First American edition. Drawings by Leonard Baskin. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a very faint stain on the front panel. # $50

25 HUGHES, Ted. Illustrated with photographs by Fay Godwin. Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence. (London): Faber and Faber (1979). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with a slight scratch. A beautiful copy. # $100 UROFF, Margaret Dickie. Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Urbana: University of Illinois Press (1979). First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with some tiny tears at the extremities. Review Copy with slip laid in. # $35 FAAS, Ekbert. Ted Hughes: The Unaccommodated Universe. Santa Barbara: Black Sparrow Press First edition. One of seven hundred and fifty trade copies. Paper label on spine. Selected critical writings by Ted Hughes and two interviews. Fine in fine acetate dustwrapper. # $45 HUGHES, Ted. New Selected Poems. New York: Harper and Row (1982). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Surprisingly uncommon in this condition. # $75

26 HUGHES, Ted. New Selected Poems. NY: Harper and Row (1982). First edition, paperback issue. Near fine copy. # $15 HUGHES, Ted. Selected Poems London: Faber and Faber (1982). First edition (American edition precedes, but this edition with different contents). Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $65 HUGHES, Ted, consulting editor. The Journals of Sylvia Plath. New York: The Dial Press (1982). First edition. Foreword by Ted Hughes. Edited by Frances McCullough. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $90 HUGHES, Ted. River. London: Faber and Faber in association with James & James, London, 1983, First edition. Oblong quarto. Photographs by Peter Keen. Fine in fine dustwrapper but for a little age toning at the spine ends. # $75

27 HUGHES, Ted. River. New York: Harper & Row Uncorrected proof of the American edition. Fine in wrappers. # $100 HUGHES, Ted. River: New Poems. New York: Harper and Row (1984). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $100 SAGAR, Keith and Stephen Tabor. Ted Hughes: A Bibliography (London): Mansell Publishing Limited (1983). First edition. Fine in fine glossy dustwrapper. # $70 SAGAR, Keith, edited by. The Achievement of Ted Hughes. (Manchester): Manchester University Press (1983). First British edition. Fine in wrappers. Review Copy with slip laid in. # $45

28 HUGHES, Ted. What Is the Truth?. London: Faber annd Faber (1984). First edition. Oblong quarto. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $100 PLATH, Sylvia. Selected Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1985). First edition. Edited by Ted Hughes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. An as new copy. # $50 HUGHES, Ted. The Iron Man. London: Faber and Faber (1985). First edition with these illustrations (originally published in 1968). Illustrated by Andrew Davidson. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A children's story by the poet, following the adventures of a giant robot who comes to earth mysteriously and is befriended by a small boy. Basis for the marvelous 1999 animated film *The Iron Giant*, the first feature film from writer/director Brad Bird, who went on to great commercial and critical success (and several worthy Oscars) with Disney's *The Incredibles* and *Ratatouille*. Also the basis for a 1989 concept album by rock legend Pete Townsend, of The Who, was an executive producer of the film. # $75 (Children) HUGHES, Ted. Ffangs the Vampire Bat and the Kiss of Truth. (London): Faber and Faber (1986). First edition. Corners a trifle bumped else fine in fine dustwrapper. # $75

29 HUGHES, Ted. Flowers and Insects: Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders. London: Faber and Faber (1986). First edition. Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $50 HUGHES, Ted. Flowers and Insects: Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders. New York: Alfred A. Knopf (1986). First American edition (from English sheets). Illustrated by Leonard Baskin. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A beautiful copy. # $35 SONNENBERG, Ben, editor. Grand Street: Autumn New York: Heritage Printers Vol. 6, no. 1. Fine in wrappers, save for a scrape to the spine. This issue features works by Elizabeth Jolley, Ted Hughes and Christopher Hitchens. # $15

30 HUGHES, Ted. Tales of the Early World. London: Faber and Faber (1988). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A pretty much as new copy. # $35 HUGHES, Ted. Moortown Diary. London: Faber and Faber (1989). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $100 HUGHES, Ted. Wolfwatching. London: Faber and Faber (1989). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $65 HUGHES, Ted. Wolfwatching. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1991). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with slip and publisher's material laid in. # $85

31 PENNATI, Camillo translated by Ted Hughes. Gabbiano: E Altri Versi And On Edge: Drawings By Lester Elliot. Torino, Italy: Edizioni L'arzana Associazione Culturale First edition. Very good with light soiling to the covers, in wrappers. Text is in Italian and English. # $30 HUGHES, Ted. Rain-Charm for the Duchy and other Laureate Poems. London: Faber and Faber (1992). First edition. Fine in a dustwrapper with a tiny scrape at the top of the spine else fine. # $50 HUGHES, Ted. Three Books: Remains of Elmet; Cave Birds; River. (London): Faber and Faber (1993). First printing of the 1993 edition. Fine in wrappers. # $30 HUGHES, Ted. Earth Dances. (Llandogo): The Old Stile Press (1994). First edition. Illustrated with lino prints on hand made paper by R. J. Lloyd. Small folio. Quarter cloth and natural handmade papercovered boards incorporating iris, nettle, onion, Japanese knotweed, pampas grass, and alkanet fibres, titled in gilt, in cloth decorated slipcase. Fine in fine slipcase. One of 250 copies Signed by both R.J. Lloyd and Ted Hughes. # $500

32 MALCOLM, Janet. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Uncorrected proof. Near fine in lightly soiled wrappers. # $22 MALCOLM, Janet. The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $30 HUGHES, Ted. Difficulties of a Bridgegroom. New York: Picador USA (1995). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper with promotional materials laid in. # $35 HUGHES, Ted. New Selected Poems (London): Faber and Faber (1995). Sixth printing. Fine in wrappers. # $18

33 HUGHES, Ted. Selected Poems New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (2002). Uncorrected proof of the American edition. Fine in wrappers. # $30 (Anthology) HUGHES, Ted. Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. New York: Picador USA (1995). Uncorrected proof. Some soiling as well as a price sticker abrasion thus near fine in wrappers. # $25 HUGHES, Ted. Winter Pollen: Occasional Prose. New York: Picador USA (1995). First American edition. Edited by William Scammell. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's promotional material laid in. # $45

34 HUGHES, Ted. Tales from Ovid. Twentyfour Passages from the Metamorphoses. (London): Faber and Faber (1997). First edition. Fine in fine slipcase, issued without dustwrapper. One of 300 numbered copies Signed by the author. Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year award. As new. # $500 HUGHES, Ted. Birthday Letters. (London): Faber and Faber (1998). First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $100 HUGHES, Ted. Birthday Letters. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1998). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $45

35 EURIPIDES. Alcestis. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (1999). First American edition. Translated by Ted Hughes. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review Copy with publisher's letter laid in. # $30 RACINE, Jean. Phedre. New York, New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (1999). First American edition. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. A new translation by Ted Hughes. Advance copy with publisher's material laid in. # $25 AESCHYLIUS. The Oresteia. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux (1999). First American edition. Translated by Ted Hughes. Fine in a fine dustwrapper. # $25

36 WAGNER, Erica. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of "Birthday Letters". New York: W. W. Norton & Company (2000). Uncorrected proof with publisher's materials laid in. Fine in glossy wrappers. # $30 WAGNER, Erica. Ariel's Gift: Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and the Story of "Birthday Letters". New York: W. W. Norton & Company (2001). First American edition. Illustrated. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Advance Review copy with publisher's prospectus laid in. # $25 FEINSTEIN, Elaine. Ted Hughes: The Life of a Poet. New York: W.W. Norton & Company (2001). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $30 HUGHES, Ted. Collected Poems. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux (2003). First American edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. # $65