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Lupercal
by Hughes, Ted
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near fine, scarce 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, some sunning and bumping) purple clothbound boards, gilt spine titling brigh
- Seller
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Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1960. 1st. hardback. Near fine, scarce 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, some sunning and bumping) purple clothbound boards, gilt spine titling bright; text block firm, pages crisp and unmarked (sunning on endpapers otherwise bright). Provenance: inscribed on ffep by Christopher Fry, the English poet and playwright who died in 2005). 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). Lupercal, Ted Hughes's second book, contains many of the unsettling and vivid animal poems for which Hughes is so rightly celebrated, including 'The Bull Moses', 'Hawk Roosting' and 'Pike'. Like his first, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC122405
- Title
- Lupercal
- Author
- Hughes, Ted
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine, scarce 1st edition, unclipped d/j (good, some sunning and bumping) purple clothbound boards, gilt spine titling brigh
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Pages
- 63
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1st, poetry, Ted Hughes, Poet Laureate, provenance, Christopher Fry, rare
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Inklings & Yarnspinners
Biblio member since 2021
Maidenhead, Berkshire
About Inklings & Yarnspinners
INKLINGS & YARNSPINNERSA new online bookshop forFIRST & SIGNED EDITIONS, RARE BOOKSA particular focus on:- The Oxford Inklings with their Friends & Influences (C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, Barfield, Williams, Chesterton, Macdonald, Sayers, etc)- Great 20th Century Novelists (e.g. Graham Greene & John le Carré; Anthony Powell & Evelyn Waugh; P. D. James etc)- Great 20th Century Poets (e.g. T. S. Eliot, John Masefield, Walter de la Mare, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Stevie Smith, W. H. Auden, Stephen Spender, Dylan Thomas, etc)- Christian Theology (e.g. from library sales)
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- Gilt
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- Fine
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- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
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