The Hawk in the Rain
New York: Harper and Brothers, (1957).
Price: $300.00
Hardcover. First American edition with the correct publisher's date code. Modest offsetting to the front fly from clippings, else fine in near fine dustwrapper with slight spine toning. Although not marked as such, this copy is from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Peter Taylor and his wife, the National Book Award-nominated poet Eleanor Ross Taylor. The author's first book.
Item #355740
Ted Hughes
birth name: Edward James Hughes
born: 8/16/1930
died: 10/28/1998
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
English poet whose most characteristic work is without sentimentality, emphasizing the cunning and savagery of animal life in harsh, sometimes disjuntive lines. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature
Hughes was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath.more
Hughes was married to the American poet Sylvia Plath.more