BIRTHDAY LETTERS - SIGNED
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First American Edition. Item #8475
First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); charcoal gray paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in gilt on spine and author's initials in black on front cover; dustjacket; [x],[2],3197,[1]pp. Signed by Hughes on title page. Fine in a Fine, unclipped dustjacket (priced $20.00).
Sharp copy of this collection of poems written to Sylvia Plath over a period of 25 years, the first of them a few years after she took her own life in 1963. "Intimate and candid in manner, they are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led both to the writing of greatest poems and to her death" (from front flap). 8475.
Price: $1,000.00