(London): Longmans with Faber and Faber, (1967).
Price: $550.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 343pp. Illustrated. Purple paper-covered boards. Extremities of covers are lightly rubbed, else a fine copy, issued without a dust wrapper. Inscribed by Ted Hughes, with his annotations and two lines of humorous verse, beneath one of his printed poems: "So this little embryo stares / From under its mother's pubic hairs / Signed, T. H.," and with Hughes' ink corrections to four leaves of text by underlining, scoring, or crossing out fourteen words and phrases on the four pages that print Ted Hughes' poem "The Brother's Dream" (the first publication of this poem). Prints ten poems by Ted Hughes including the first appearance of "The Brother's Dream" *Sagar & Tabor* B36. Also includes five poems by Sylvia Plath, twenty-five poems by W. B. Yeats, and poems by T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Robert Graves, Dylan Thomas, Louis MacNeice et al. issued as part of "Longmans' English Series"
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