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London: Faber and Faber, 1973. [Poetry] LIMITED SIGNED EDITION. Quarto (34 x 25), pp. 123; [5]. Publisher's blue cloth quarter bound with black cloth, lettered in gilt to spine. Bevelled edges, pink flyleaf, with original black box with pink title table to front. Twelve full-page illustrations throughout. As new. 'Crow' was first published in 1970, and it marks a pivotal movement in Ted Hughes' poetry in which he turns to nature, history, and mythology for his inspiration in this collection. The illustrations that accompany the poems are by Leonard Baskin who was sculptor, book illustrator, and printmaker. Although he spent most of his life in the U.S., Baskin did spend nine years in Devon in Lurley during which he became a close friend of Hughes. This edition is part of a limited print run of 400 copies, and this copy is number 64.

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