HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, COPY NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES "RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR" OF THE SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ONE OF THE DEDICATEES on the colophon, from an overall edition of 310 copies, publisher's cloth-backed boards, yellow endpapers, 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1998; and a first edition signed by Ted Hughes (2)FootnotesCopy Number 2 of Hughes' Birthday Letters, signed by both himself and his daughter Frieda, to whom (together with his and Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas) the book was dedicated. Written over a period of twenty-five years, all the poems in the book concern Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath. Hughes died nine months after the publication so when it was awarded the Whitbread Prize that year it was Frieda who collected the award on his behalf, reading out "a letter to a friend in which Hughes had explained, 'I had always just thought them unpublishably raw and unguarded, simply too vulnerable. But then I just could not endure being blocked any longer...'" (British Library, website).
Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter.
HUGHES (TED)Birthday Letters, COPY NUMBER 2 OF 10 COPIES "RESERVED FOR THE AUTHOR" OF THE SPECIAL EDITION, SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ONE OF THE DEDICATEES on the colophon, from an overall edition of 310 copies, publisher's cloth-backed boards, yellow endpapers, 8vo, Faber and Faber, 1998; and a first edition signed by Ted Hughes (2)FootnotesCopy Number 2 of Hughes' Birthday Letters, signed by both himself and his daughter Frieda, to whom (together with his and Sylvia Plath's son Nicholas) the book was dedicated. Written over a period of twenty-five years, all the poems in the book concern Hughes' relationship with Sylvia Plath. Hughes died nine months after the publication so when it was awarded the Whitbread Prize that year it was Frieda who collected the award on his behalf, reading out "a letter to a friend in which Hughes had explained, 'I had always just thought them unpublishably raw and unguarded, simply too vulnerable. But then I just could not endure being blocked any longer...'" (British Library, website).
Provenance: Ted Hughes, ownership inscription; Frieda Hughes, Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter.
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