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Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Poem (with a facsimile of an early draft tipped in) by Ted Hughes. Illustration by Leonard Baskin. One folio sheet folded twice to make four pages, measuring 14" x 10". Spine ends a bit creased else fine. One of 250 numbered copies Signed by Hughes and Baskin on the limitation page (of about 300 total). Nicely printed by The Scolar Press. Sagar and Tabor A45.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
HUGHES, Ted. Leonard Baskin. Cave Birds. The Scolar Press, [London], 1975.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Illustrated with lithographs by Leonard Baskin. Housed in an elephant folio burlap clamshell box measuring 21" x 29". Hughes' 10 poems are printed on bifoliums measuring 14" x 20" closed, with a facsimile of a draft laid down facing each poem, and are laid into a slightly larger chemise with another bifolium featuring the title and colophon page. Baskin's lithographs are printed on approximately 20" x 27½" Barcham Green Crisbrook paper and are each numbered 24/125. Ribbon ties on the burlap clamshell are partially lacking, else fine. Copy 24 of 100 numbered copies offered for sale, Signed by Baskin and Hughes on the limitation page. Sagar and Tabor A46a. A beautiful production, featuring 10 previously unpublished poems inspired by Baskin's striking imagery.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Ted Hughes. Cave Birds. Scolar Press, London, 1975.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: These ten poems printed for the first time form part of "Cave Birds," a sequence of twenty poems written by Hughes between 1974-75 to Baskin's drawings. The poems are published together with prints from the related drawings and each poem is accompanied by a facsimile of a draft selected from the poet's working papers. The elephant folio sized prints are signed by Baskin, numbered, and dated. The book is quarter white paper, with hand-made chocolate paper sides and light brown label stamped in black. Unpaginated. Portfolio is 20 x 14 1/2 inches. The Baskin prints are printed on Barcham Green paper. The text of the poems is printed on handmade paper by F. Amatruda, Amalfi. The matching burlap covered fitted portfolio with ties contains both the prints and the book. Number 93 of an edition limited to one hundred copies, each copy of the book signed by the poet, Ted Hughes, and the illustrator, Leonard Baskin. Fine condition. Fitted portfolio containing the large prints by Baskin and a book containing the texts of Hughes's poems
Seller: Four Rivers Books, LLC, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.