London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, -1964.
Price: $1,500.00
Hardcover. First edition. Edited by John Butt. Assisted by J. M. Cameron, D. W. Jefferson, and Robin Skelton. Octavo. 232pp. Maroon cloth gilt. Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Bonamy Dobree from a photograph by Edward Hutton. Front cover is lightly bumped at tip of two corners, else a very good copy in very good dust jacket with some staining and spotting on rear panel.
Inscribed by Ted Hughes on the page of his contribution (page 182) which prints the first book appearance of his poem "Wodwo", with a three-line riddle in Ted Hughes' ink holograph, written on the left and right blank margins): "What has eyes, mouth, anus, two legs, voice and a stink-/ But leaves instead of hair? Think, think, think." Written vertically upward on left blank margin is the answer: "Answer: a lorry load of cabbages," and signed by Hguhes as "Author" in the lower blank margin beneath Ted Hughes' printed name. Provenance: Publisher Richard Gilbertson's copy from the Sir Joseph Gold collection. Prints first book appearance of "Wodwo" by Ted Hughes [Sagar & Tabor B22], and contributions by W. H. Auden, T. S. Eliot, Geoffrey Hill, Jon Silkin, Stephen Spender, Herbert Read et al.
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