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First edition. Octavo. 80pages. One of the most important twentieth-century collections of poems.Presentation copy from the author, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''For Alan & Shelagh- best wishes Ted Hughes''. The recipients are his friends Alan Hancox and his wife. The former was the antiquarian bookseller who directed the Cheltenham Literature Festival during the 1980's. Under his guidance it grew sevenfold.Some tanning to free endpapers, otherwise fine in near-fine, price-clipped dustwrapper.

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