Lot 529
Hughes, Ted
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£400
Description
Single unpublished poems by Ted Hughes: Night arrival of sea trout, The iron wolf, Puma. Folio, [Devon], Morrigu Press, 1979, together 3 broadsides, each number 20 of 30 copies, signed by the poet, loose as issued with prospectus in folder of decorative Japanese paper with white printed label, broadsides 298 x 200mm., presentation copy inscribed on folder "[?] Martin Booth, May 29, 79, a gift from Olwyn [Hughes]"
Footnote
Note: Rare: the first publication of The Morrigu Press. Printed by Hughes's son Nicholas on an Albion handpress belonging to Olwyn Hughes, Ted Hughes's sister. [Sagar/Tabor A61]