London: Turret Books, (1986).
Price: $125.00
Hardcover. First edition. Edited and Introduction by Ruth Fainlight. Memoir of Fainlight by Allen Ginsberg. Introductory poem "To Be Harry" by Ted Hughes. Jacket art by Ralph Steadman. Fine in fine dustwrapper. Little known, Harry was the brother of poet Ruth Fainlight, and a close friend of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. He was a loner, gay, a heavy drug user, and spent time in mental hospitals. Hughes tried to convince Fainlight to publish another collection but he refused. This posthumous collection was published by his sister. One of 1000 copies. Inscribed by Ruth Fainlight to the American poets Daniel Hoffman and Elizabeth McFarland.
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