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HUGHES (TED)The Iron Giant, first U.S. edition, AUTHORS' PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FRIEDA HUGHES, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, "For Frieda love from Dad" on the front-free endpaper, illustrations by Robert Nadler New York, Harper & Row, [1968]; The Iron Woman, FIRST EDITION, AUTHORS' PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FRIEDA HUGHES, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, "For Frieda, with much love Daddy, August 1993" on the front free endpaper, illustrations by Andrew Davidson, Faber, 1993; How the Whale Became, first U.S. edition, AUTHORS' PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED TO FRIEDA HUGHES, ONE OF THE DEDICATEES, "For Frieda love from Dad" on the front-free endpaper, illustrations by Rick Schreiter, New York, Atheneum, 1964; Earth-moon. Illustrated by the Author, NUMBER 185 OF 226 COPIES, publisher's boards with cork inlay on upper cover cover, slipcase, 12mo, Rainbow Press, 1976; Animal Poems, LIMITED TO 100 COPIES, this copy not numbered but signed "Ted Hughes Sept 25 1971" on front free endpaper, loose in wrappers as issued, 4to, Crediton, Devon, Richard Gilbertson, [1971]; Under the North Star... Drawings by Leonard Baskin FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED "For Frieda and Des [Dawe, Frieda's first husband] with love Dad, 1st May 1981", New York, Viking, 1981; What is the Truth? A Farmyard Fable for the Young, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "To Frieda with love Daddy, 4th May 1984", Faber, 1984; The Cat and the Cuckoo... With Paintings by R.J. Lloyd, FIRST EDITION, INSCRIBED "For Frieda, some more nursery rhymes from Daddy with much love, 23rd August 1987", Bideford, Sunstone Press, 1987; Tales of the Early World, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Frieda to read to Clive [Anderson, Frieda's second husband] with love from Daddy, August 1988", Faber, 1988; The Mermaid's Purse. Watercolours by R.J. Lloyd, FIRST EDITION, NUMBER 10 OF 100 COPIES SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR AND ARTIST, INSCRIBED "For Frieda love from Daddy, August 1993", colour plates, slipcase, Bideford, Sunstone Press, 1993; The Dreamfighter and Other Creation Tales, FIRST EDITION, PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED "For Frieda, some more bedtime stories with love from Daddy, 21st May 1995", Faber, 1995, unless otherwise stated publisher's cloth, dust-jackets, 8vo; and 13 other books for children, of which 9 by Hughes with ownership inscription by Frieda (and 2 inscribed to her by her father), 2 inscribed to her by Leonard Baskin and 2 inscribed to her by Ralph Steadman (24)Footnotes"FOR FRIEDA SOME MORE NURSERY RHYMES FROM DADDY WITH MUCH LOVE" - A collection of Ted Hughes's books for children, most inscribed to his own daughter, Frieda, to whom several of the books were dedicated.
Provenance: Frieda Hughes, most with gift inscriptions to her by Ted.