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Hughes, Ted. FINE AND COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF FIRST, LIMITED AND OTHER EDITIONS OF HUGHES' PUBLISHED WORK (AND SOME WORKS RELATING TO THE POET, COMPRISING OVER 390 VOLUMES, WITH 76 WORKS SIGNED OR INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHOR TO HIS FRIEND NICK GAMMAGE the collection comprising English editions of nearly all Hughes' major and minor publications (the first trade editions in cloth, simultaneous paperbacks, signed limited and illustrated editions (by Leonard Baskin R.J. Lloyd, and other collaborative artists, some signed), broadsides, as well as book, periodical and newspaper contributions (including Hughes' English translations of many foreign poets' work), books edited by Hughes, some American editions, a number of critical appreciations of the poet (by Keith Sagar and others); together with advance and other uncorrected proofs of some publications, and additional material such as LPs and audio cassettes first editions including (up to 1971) The Hawk in the Rain (1957, the author's first book, signed, together with uncorrected advance proofs), Lupercal (1960, his second collection, signed), Meet my Folks! (1961), Selected Poems (with Thom Gunn, 1962), How the Whale Became (1963), The Earth-Owl and other Moon People (1963), Nessie the Mannerless Monster (1964), The Burning of the Brothel (1966, one of 75 copies signed by the author), Recklings (1966, one of 150 copies signed by the author), Scapegoats and Rabies (1967, limited to 300 copies), Wodwo (1967, signed, together with uncorrected proofs and the 1985 reprint, inscribed by the author), Animal Poems (1967, limited to c.100 copies, signed), Poetry in the Making (1967, signed), Gravestones (1968, the first book edition, inscribed), Seneca's Oedipus (1969, three inscribed presentation copies, one with a long quotation, as below, together with uncorrected proof and an early rehearsal script, one of two copies recorded by the bibliographer, inscribed to his sister Olwyn Hughes), The Iron Man (1968, inscribed, together with poster and programme), Five Autumn Songs for Children's Voices (1968, one of 150 signed copies), A Crow Hymn (1970, one of 100 copies, inscribed "To Michael – When the Crow sings the Nightingale bursts – From Ted Mar 70"), The Martyrdom of Bishop Farrar (1970, one of c.100 copies, first state in red and blue marbled wrappers, together with proof page, and the scarce second printing in plain wrappers, one of 100 signed copies), The Coming of the Kings (1971, inscribed), A Few Crows (1970, one of 75 signed copies), Crow (1970, signed, together with the 1972 revised edition, also signed, the signed limited edition of 1973, the new 1999 edition and the 1973 Claddagh Records LP), Fighting for Jerusalem (1970, broadside, one of c.400 copies), Poems [with Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe] (1971, one of 300 signed copies), Eat Crow (1971, one of 150 signed copies, this one additionally inscribed); later editions including Earth Moon (1976, one of 26 lettered copies, inscribed with a quotation), Gaudete (1977, Al Alvarez's copy, inscribed to him by Hughes "To Al and Anne. Friendship is long life, short folly interrupts. Love Ted"), Moortown (1979, signed, together with first American edition, inscribed), New Selected Poems (1995, inscribed), Orts (1976, one of 200 signed copies), Playground Memories (1996, to which Hughes contributes "The Canal's Drowning Black", the editor's copy, inscribed by Hughes and other contributors including Allan Ahlberg, Colin Dexter, John Fowles and Terry Pratchett), The Rattle Bag (1982, edited by Hughes and Seamus Heaney, signed by both editors, together with their later anthology The School Bag, similarly signed), Ravens (1979, broadside, one of 100 signed copies), Remains of Elmet (1979, inscribed presentation copy), Season Songs (1976, inscribed, together with the first American edition, jointly inscribed by Hughes and the illustrator Leonard Baskin , Selected Poems 1957-81 (several editions, all signed), Shakespeare and the Goddess o