Buy this book on-line TED HUGHES : Moortown. Poems. With two drawings by Leonard Baskin and a half-title decoration by the author. (INSCRIBED)Faber, London, 1979
First Edition (first printing). A presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: "For Peggy and Sean, yet another book, with much love from Ted, 10th Nov 1979". (The recipients of Hughes' inscription are the poet Seán Rafferty and his wife). 8vo. 170pp. Red cloth lettered in gold at the spine. Some tanning to the lesser quality paperstock, else a virtually fine copy in non-price-clipped dust wrapper, lightly faded at the spine panel and with a touch of marking and edge-creasing. One hundred and twenty-four poems. The collection is named after Hughes' small farm in Winkleigh, Devon. Scottish poet Seán Rafferty was born in February 1909 and studied at Edinburgh University where his verse greatly impressed Sorley MacLean. After the death of his first wife on V.E. day in 1945 he remarried and moved with his new wife Peggy to Devon where the couple ran the Duke of York pub in Iddesleigh and became great friends with their neighbour and regular Ted Hughes, who regularly sent Rafferty's poems to 'PN Review.' His 'Collected Poems' was posthumously issued by Carcanet in 1995. Sagar & Tabor A67.. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of TED HUGHES : Moortown. Poems. With two drawings by Leonard Baskin and a half-title decoration by the author. (INSCRIBED). Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including atlases, livres d'occasion, libri rari, antiquarian books and out-of-print books. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |