Lot 285
Hughes, Ted
Crow
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 07 February 2024 from 10:00 GMT
Description
from the Life and Songs of the Crow. With Twelve Drawings by Leonard Baskin. London: Faber and Faber, 1973. One of 400 copies signed by Ted Hughes and Leonard Baskin, folio, original black quarter cloth, blue linen sides, top edge red, others untrimmed, slipcase;
Idem. Shakespeare's Ovid. Christopher Le Brun. London: Enitharmon Press, 1995. One of 150 copies signed by Ted Hughes, 4to, original cloth;
Idem. River. Poems. Photographs by Peter Keen. London: Faber and Faber, 1983. First edition, oblong 4to, original boards, dust jacket, inscribed by Ted Hughes 'For Janos, from your old friend Ted with love. October 1983' on the front free endpaper (the recipient identified in a laid-in catalogue description as Hungarian poet Janos Csokits (1928-2011), dust jacket toned;
Libanus Press. Candide, or Optimism ... now newly translated by Doctor Christopher Thacker and illustrated by Angela Barrett. Marlborough: Libanus Press, 1996. One of 125 copies only, folio, original quarter vellum, inscribed by the translator on the front free endpaper;
Brown, George Mackay. Orcadians: Seven Impromptus, illustrated by Simon Manfield. Newtyle, Angus: Kettillonia, 2016. One of 300 copies signed by the artist, 4to, original green cloth;
and 11 similar works including others by Ted Hughes
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