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Hughes, Ted. Flowers and Insects: Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders ***SIGNED***. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1986.

Price: US$35.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Near fine unread stated first edition hardback signed by Baskin on flyleaf/half title page. Former bookseller information in light pencil on same. Binding very tight and interior pages beginning to tone at outer edges. Dust jacket scuffed with rubbed edges. In protective archival sleeve.

Seller: Shade of the Cottonwood, Lawrence, KS, U.S.A.

HUGHES, Ted.. Flowers and Insects - Some Birds and a Pair of Spiders.. Alfred A. Knopf, New York., 1986.

Price: US$387.65 + shipping

Description: First U.S. edition. Octavo. 61 pages. Illustrations in colour by Leonard Baskin.Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the half-title page: "For our Holgar [sic] - all the best - from Ted - 22 September 1986". Above this there is an inscription from Leonard Baskin: "For Holgar [sic] - With the love and affectionate regard of Lisa & Leonard. N.Y.C. 1986". Holger Braasch ran Leinster Fine Art where the artist was a regular exhibitor; Baskin also painted his portrait.Fine in near-fine dustwrapper slightly creased at head of spine.

Seller: Peter Ellis, Bookseller, ABA, ILAB, London, United Kingdom