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The Hawk in the Rain
by Hughes, Ted
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near fine, 1st edition (2nd impression), with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping and grubbiness); blue clothbound boards clean, g
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1960. 2nd impression. hardback. Near fine, 1st edition (2nd impression), with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping and grubbiness); blue clothbound boards clean, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages unmarked and crisp. A little sunning on endpapers. Provenance: signed on ffep by Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005) - with occasional annotations by Fry. . 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Ted Hughes' first published book (which won the Galbraith Prize in USA on publication) - a collection of forty poems, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, whom he had married the previous year.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC122303
- Title
- The Hawk in the Rain
- Author
- Hughes, Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, 1st edition (2nd impression), with unclipped d/j (good, some bumping and grubbiness); blue clothbound boards clean, g
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd impression
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 59
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, poetry, Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, provenance, Christopher Fry
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
Terms of Sale
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Inklings & Yarnspinners
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Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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