Beschreibung:

HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBER III OF 10 COPIES RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, SIGNED, from an overall edition of 310, publisher's quarter morocco, Faber, [1998]; Tales from Ovid, 2 copies, SPECIAL EDITION, NUMBERS I AND 2 OF 10 COPIES RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR, SIGNED, from an overall edition of 310, publisher's cloth-backed boards, Faber, [1998]; Earth-moon. Illustrated by the Author, LIMITED 226 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1975; Orts, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1978; Adam and the Sacred Nine, 4 copies, LIMITED TO 200 COPIES, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR, 1978, original blue calf, slipcases; Moortown Elegies, NUMBER 77 OF 175 COPIES, SIGNED, publisher's pictorial vellum gilt, t.e.g., slipcase, 1978; Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 140 COPIES SIGNED, publisher's limp calf, one in slipcase, 1973, Rainbow Press; A Solstice, ONE OF 350 COPIES, this copy 139, additionally inscribed "Ted Hughes 9 August 78" on colophon, publisher's wrappers, Knotting, Sceptre Press, 1978; Animal Poems, 2 copies, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, SIGNED "TED HUGHES 25TH SEPT 1971", loose as issued in publisher's wrappers, Crediton, Richard Gilbertson, 1971; Giant Dream of Elephants, 1982; Wolf-Watching, 1982; Mice Are Funny Creatures, 1983; Weasels at Work, 1983, EACH LIMITED TO 75 COPIES SIGNED, prospectus in each, publisher's wrappers, printed label on upper cover, Court Green, North Tawton; Moortown, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda and Des [Dawes] with lots of love from Dad, 10th Nov. 1979", errata slip with one line added in manuscript by Hughes loosely inserted, Faber, 1979; Flowers and Insects, FIRST EDITION, DEDICATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda with special love from Daddy, November 1986", 1986; Woolf Watching, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda and Clive [Anderson] with love Daddy, 9th October 1989, 1989; A Choice of Shakespeare's Verse... Selected by Ted Hughes, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda with love from Daddy, 7th November 1991. Number 115 [with a stanza marked in the text], publisher's wrappers, 1991; Shakespeare and the Goddess of Being, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda with love from Daddy, 1st April 1992" above a six line verse from the "Brihadaranyaka Upanishad", 1992; Winter Pollen. Occasional Prose, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda - Keep this book from bandicoots, wombats, jippers and the laugher of Jackasses - it's the secret of life of your Daddy who sends it with love for April 1st, 1994 [Frieda's birthday]", 1994, Faber, unless otherwise mentioned publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo and 4to; and approximately 40 others, of which 8 inscribed by Ted to Frieda (3 his own works, 5 by other authors, 6 signed limited editions), and others by Hughes (c.65)Footnotes"FOR FRIEDA - KEEP THIS BOOK FROM BANDICOOTS, WOMBATS, JIPPERS AND THE LAUGHTER OF JACKASSES - IT'S THE SECRET LIFE OF YOUR DADDY WHO SENDS HIS LOVE" - A collection of copies personally inscribed by Hughes to his daughter, of Private Press publications (Morragu, Rainbow, etc.) and others by Hughes.
Provenance: Frieda Hughes, inscribed to her, or with her ownership inscription.