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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First American Edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First American edition, first printing. Signed by Ted Hughes on the front free endpaper. Bound in publisher's original black cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with faint lean to binding, dust-soiling to top edge, toning and light offsetting to pages. In a Near Fine dust jacket with toning to the spine, and soiling. The author's first book.

The Hawk in the Rain is Ted Hughes's first collection of poems, released in 1957. It features themes of nature, humanity's struggle, and powerful, evocative imagery.