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Faber and Faber, 1973. 1st edition. Hardcover. Large format, 32x24 cms. Very fine grey cloth with quarter-bound black spine, gilt spine lettering, maroon endpapers and very clean pages. Signed by Hughes and Baskin and numbered 92 out of 400 limited-edition copies. In a black card slipcase, a little rubbed, with maroon paper label bearing title and names. The American artist Leonard Baskin met Ted Hughes in 1958 when Hughes was teaching at the University of Massachusetts, and their friendship developed into a creative relationship manifested in several books by Hughes which Baskin illustrated. Crow was first published in 1970 and is often considered as Hughes's finest work, and in 1973 it was issued in this limited edition of 400 copies only, with Baskin supplying 12 full-page drawings, the result showing the collaboration between poet and artist at its height. Three new Crow poems were included in this edition which had not previously appeared in the trade editions of the book. A…

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