(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957).

TED HUGHES’S FIRST BOOK IN FIRST EDITION FORMAT. AWARDED THE FIRST PUBLICATION AWARD BY MARIANNE MOORE, W.H. AUDEN, AND STEPHEN SPENDER. “The talent is unmistakable. The work has focus, is aglow with feeling, with conscience; sensibility is awake, embodied in appropriate diction.”. Item #20486

First edition of the author’s first book. 8vo, publisher’s original black cloth with gilt lettering on the spine, in the publisher’s original printed and decorated dustjacket. x,52pp. A fine copy with a bit of light mellowing to the spine panel of the jacket.