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Hughes, Ted. Moortown Elegies. Rainbow Press, 1978.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Designed and printed on handmade paper by Will Carter at Rampant Lions Press in an edition of 175 copies, 143 of these bound by Zaehnsdorf in full limp white goat vellum with lettering on spine and figure of a bull on front in gilt, of which this is no. 13. Signed by the poet at colophon. Illustration (one) by Leonard Baskin. Top edge gilt. 56 pp. A beautiful copy, with vellum faintly sunned, covers slightly bowed outward; a few tiny surface imperfections appear to be in the vellum itself. In slipcase as issued. NOTE: May require additional chipping charges.
Seller: Crane's Bill Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Ted.. Moortown Elegies.. Cambridge Rampant Lions Press for Rainbow Press, 1978.
Price: US$605.00 + shipping
Description: Number 131 of a limited edition of 175, signed by the author; folio (30.4 x 24.2 cm); title in red and black, illustrations by Leonard Baskin, numbered prospectus loosely inserted; publisher's pictorial limp vellum, gilt, a little yellowed (as usual), top edge gilt, others uncut, original slip-case, small dent to one edge, otherwise very good, a near-fine copy. 'Hughes's love of animals was one of the catalysts in his decision to become a poet. According to London Times contributor Thomas Nye, Hughes once confessed "that he began writing poems in adolescence, when it dawned upon him that his earlier passion for hunting animals in his native Yorkshire ended either in the possession of a dead animal, or at best a trapped one. He wanted to capture not just live animals, but the aliveness of animals in their natural state: their wildness, their quiddity, the fox-ness of the fox and the crow-ness of the crow." However, Hughes's interest in animals was generally less naturalistic than symbolic' (Poetry Foundation). This collection of poems very much reflects the above and Hughes' day job as a Devon farmer, although some are more naturalistic than previously. Sagar & Tabor A57a.1
Seller: Shapero Rare Books, London, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Ted.. Moortown Elegies.. The Rainbow Press, London., 1978.
Price: US$737.54 + shipping
Description: First edition. Folio. 60 pages. Drawing by Leonard Baskin. Full limp white goat vellum, gilt design on a bull on upper cover. Top edge gilt. Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press, Cambridge, in Monotype Ehrhardt on Barcham Green handmade paper. The most handsome of the Rainbow Press titles.Out of a total edition of 175 copies this is one of 143 numbered and signed by the author.Fine in fine cloth slipcase.
Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom
HUGHES, Ted. Moortown Elegies. Rainbow Press, (London), 1978.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Large quarto. [64]pp. One illustration by Leonard Baskin. Full limp white goat vellum stamped in gold. Fine in near fine lightly worn publisher's cloth slipcase. Printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press. Limited to 143 numbered copies bound in full vellum and Signed by Ted Hughes.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Hughes, Ted. Moortown Elegies. Rainbow Press, London, 1978.
Price: US$900.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine in publisher's slipcase. Copy 39 of 143 copies (from a total edition of 173) printed on Barcham Green hand-made paper, bound in full limp white goat vellum. Signed by Hughes and Baskin on the colophon page.
Seller: Clayton Fine Books, Shepherdstown, WV, U.S.A.
Hughes (Ted).. Moortown Elegies. The Rainbow Press,, 1978.
Price: US$1616.17 + shipping
Description: Illustration by Leonard Baskin One of 175 numbered copies, this being one of 143 in full limp white goat vellum gilt by Zaehnsdorf, signed by the author. Designed and printed by Will Carter at the Rampant Lions Press on Barcham Green handmade Folio Very nice copy in slipcase. Presentation Copy, inscribed by the author "For Eric with much love from Ted and Carol July 1st 1979" The inscription is to the authors close friend Eric Walter White, the poet, editor, translator and composer.
Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom
Ted Hughes. Moortown Elegies. Rainbow Press, 1978.
Price: US$2565.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of 26 extremely rare, and exquisitely produced, lettered copies bound in brown leather of this utterly compelling farming diary with a gold embossed drawing by Hughes on the cover. This is Copy E/26. The Queen owned Copy A.
Seller: Gipsy Hill Books, LONDON, United Kingdom
Price: US$5130.69 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Limited edition; small folio; original full crushed morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, illustration of a bull blocked in gilt on upper cover, top edge gilt, original slipcase. One of six specially bound author's presentation copies, this for Frieda Hughes (as stated in red print on the colophon, additionally signed by Frieda), from an overall edition of 175, copies, one full-page illustration by Leonard Baskin.
Seller: York Modern Books PBFA ABA, York, United Kingdom