Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
HUGHES, TED. Adam and the Sacred Nine. Rainbow Press, London, 1978.
Price: US$224.48 + shipping
Description: First edition - number 142 of 200 copies printed at the Rampant Lions Press and signed by the author. With a drawing by Leonard Baskin. A Rainbow Press leaflet for the book loosely inserted. Spine slightly faded as usual, otherwise fine. In a slipcase lined with fabric.
Seller: Peter Grogan, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$250.14 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Collection of seventeen poems printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge in a limited, numbered edition of 200 copies. This is copy #45 and is SIGNED by the author on the colophon. Black on white frontispiece illustration of a bird by Leonard Baskin. Handmade paper with untrimmed fore edge and lower page edges. Top edge gilt. Blue and white sewn headbands. Blue and brown marbled end papers. Bound in blue with two raised bands and gilt lettering on spine. Few faint scratch marks on covers - otherwise in Fine condition. Enclosed with in a blue cloth covered slip case.
Seller: The Bookshop at Beech Cottage, Newbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$282.21 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition of 200 copies, this being 79/200. Octavo. Bound in full blue calf, gilt to spine, marbled end papers, printed on handmade paper, and in the original blue cloth covered slipcase. Full page frontispiece by Baskin. In just about Fine condition, no fade to the spine but some gentle rubbing to the leather boards likely from being pulled in and out of the slipcase. [Sagar & Tabor A59]
Seller: Picture This (ABA, ILAB, IVPDA), Sunningdale, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Ted.. Adam and the Sacred Nine.. The Rainbow Press., 1978.
Price: US$288.62 + shipping
Description: First edition. Octavo. 27 pages. Black and white frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. Full blue calf overs. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, on hand-made paper. Patterned endpapers. Top edge gilt.One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author.Spine faintly faded. Fine in fine internally lined cloth slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Ted.. Adam and the Sacred Nine.. London: Rainbow Press (1978)., 1978.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: 23 pp. Spine faded, light rubbing to front and rear covers from slipcase wear, else fine in full blue leather. Near fine publisher's slipcase. Frontispiece drawing by Leonard Baskin. One of 200 numbered copies SIGNED by Hughes.
Seller: Jeff Maser, Bookseller - ABAA, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Hughes, Ted. Adam and the Sacred Nine. London: Rainbow Press, 1978.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Square 8vo., 23 pp. One of 200 copies printed at the Rampart Lions Press, Cambridge by Will Carter and bound by Gray of Cambridge. Signed by Ted Hughes. Bound in full blue leather, title gilt on spine; top edge gilt; with blue cloth. Covered slipcase. As new. With a drawing by Leonard Baskin,
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Hughes, Ted. ADAM AND THE SACRED NINE. The Rainbow Press 1978 (but 1979), London, 1978.
Price: US$302.50 + shipping
Description: Full blue calf binding with raised bands by Gray of Cambridge, gilt spine titles; decorated Japanese endpapers; housed in full blue cloth slipcase with ribbed fabric; 8vo. 23 pages. Frontispiece drawing of a phoenix rising by Leonard Baskin. No. 32 of 200 copies (150 for sale) designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press in Cambridge. Comprises 17 poems by Hughes. Sagar and Tabor A59. Spine faded else fine in a fine slipcase.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Hughes, Ted. Adam and the Sacred Nine (First edition, SIGNED). Rainbow Press, London, 1978.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: One of 200 numbered copies signed by Ted Hughes. Bound in blue calf with raised bands and gilt stamping on the spine and housed in the publisher's cloth slipcase. Near fine with some fading along the spine.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, Square 8vo, 8 x 6.25 inches, frontispiece illustration by Leonard Baskin + 65 pp. Bound in original full blue calf gilt by Gray of Cambridge, top edge gilt, designed and printed at the Rampant Lions Press by Will Carter, fine printing on handmade paper, a fine copy in fine blue cloth slipcase as issued. This fine edition was limited to 200 copies of which this is number 122, signed by Ted Hughes on the colophon page.
Seller: Marrins Bookshop, Folkestone, KENT, United Kingdom
Hughes, Ted. Adam and the Sacred Nine. Rainbow Press, 1978.
Price: US$448.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: With a drawing by Leonard Baskin. Full blue calf. Near fine copy in like slipcase. One of 200 numbered copies signed by the author. Ownership signature of Frieda Hughes.
Seller: Tindley and Everett, ABA, London, United Kingdom