By Ted Hughes
New York   Harper & Brothers
7.5" by 5.5" [8], ix-x, 52pp
The first US edition of Ted Hughes' first poetry collection, a lovely example in the original unclipped dustwrapper.
By Ted Hughes

1957 The Hawk in the Rain

New York   Harper & Brothers
7.5" by 5.5" [8], ix-x, 52pp
The first US edition of Ted Hughes' first poetry collection, a lovely example in the original unclipped dustwrapper.
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First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

The first US edition of this work.

In the original unclipped dustwrapper.

Ted Hughes' debut poetry collection, containing poems on the lives of animals, and the First World War.

Ted Hughes was one of the greatest poets of the twentieth century, known for being Poet Laureate for fourteen years, and for his ultimately unhappy marriage to Sylvia Plath.

Condition

In the original publisher's cloth binding, in the original unclipped dustwrapper. Externally, smart, with some light marks to the boards. Minor edgewear with minor loss to the dustwrapper, with tape repairs to the head and tail of the spine and to the folds of the reverse. A few light marks to the dustwrapper. Discolouration to the spine of the dustwrapper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean.

Near Fine

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