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London: Faber and Faber, 1973. Fine in near fine slipcase.. Gorgeous doubly signed limited edition of Hughes's collection, illustrated with twelve dark and deep ink drawings by Leonard Baskin. Hughes's initial work on this ambitious mythological poem cycle began some years after the death of Sylvia Plath and was brought to an abrupt halt by the death of Assia Wevill, to whom the book is dedicated. CROW was his "most controversial work: a stylistic experiment which abandoned many of the attractive features of his earlier work, and an ideological challenge [...] He described CROW as his masterpiece" (Roberts). 13'' x 9.5''. Original grey cloth with gilt-lettered black cloth spine. Mauve endpapers. Red topstain. In original black slipcase with mauve printed label. Illustrated with 12 black and white drawings by Baskin. 123, [1] pages. Edition of 400 copies printed by the John Roberts Press on T.H. Saunders mould-made paper, this copy no. 125. Signed by Hughes and Baskin at colophon.…

A significant and ambitious work of poetry that combines a mythological character with raw, visceral imagery and themes.