Birthday Letters

by Hughes, Ted

Birthday Letters, published in 1998, is a collection of poetry by English poet and children's writer Ted Hughes. Released only months before Hughes's death, the collection won multiple prestigious literary awards. This collection of eighty-eight poems is widely considered to be Hughes's most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and "explosive" marriage.

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London: Faber, 1998. 8vo, pp. 198. Original pale blue boards, lettered in gilt to spine. Illustrated dustwrapper. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper. First edition. A fine copy.
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The First UK printing published by Faber, London in 1998. The Limited edition, this being number '244' of 300 numbered copies signed by the author to the limitation page. The BOOK is in Fine condition. Original quarter black cloth over blue boards, spine lettered in gilt. Signed by the author to the limitation page. The book is protected in a… Read more about this item
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Faber and Faber, 1998. First Edition Fourth Impression . Cloth Bound Boards. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1998 First Edition Fourth Impression. Blue hard cover, size octavo, 198 pages. Blue hard cover with white titles to the spine, with dust jacket. Book condition near fine, gift inscription to front end-paper else fine, a… Read more about this item
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(London): Faber and Faber, 1998. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper.
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. 198 pages. Previous owner's name whited-out on the front free endpaper. Hughes' obituary in an envelope loosely inserted at the back.. quarter-cloth and paper boards. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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Faber, 1998. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine in fine dustjacket. This prizewinning collection of 88 poems, all but two addressed to the author's former wife, Sylvia Plath, were written over a 25-year period following her suicide in 1963. They examine their life together and Hughes's responses to her death, but none of them directly deals with the events of the… Read more about this item
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Faber and Faber, London., 1998. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 198. A collection of poems, all but two of which are addressed to the author's dead wife, Sylvia Plath. Loosely inserted is a slip of paper signed by the author. From the library of Shelagh, wife of Alan Hancox the antiquarian bookseller who directed the Cheltenham Literature Festival which… Read more about this item
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Faber Faber Inc. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. No defects in book or jacket, the latter now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book is unread, a beautiful copy. Poems addressed to his wife, Sylvia Plath, who committed suicide as a young woman. . This is the true first edition.… Read more about this item
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1998. Third Printing. Hardcover. 0374112967 . Gently read copy. International orders may require additional postage. ; 1 x 8.3 x 5.7 Inches; 197 pages .
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Farrar Straus and Giroux. As New in As New dust jacket. 1998. 1st American Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. No defects of any kind. As New. . This is the first American edition. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 200 pages. G3 .
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Faber Faber Inc, 1998-01-31. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Gift incription and date of front blank endpaper. Dust jacket with light wear. Otherwise clean and intact throughout. Please see image. 198 pages.
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New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1998. First US edition. Hardcover. Hardcover. First US edition. Fine book in a fine dust jacket. A collection of poems by Britain's Poet Laureate, many relating to his wife, Sylvia Plath, and her tragic suicide.
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London, Faber and Faber Limited, 1998. . First edition, inscribed to the poet's brother and sister-in law on the front free endpaper; 8vo (225 x 145 mm); publisher's blue cloth, illustrated dust-jacket after a painting by Frieda Hughes (the poet's daughter), very mild rubbing to extremities, otherwise near fine. Inscribed to his brother and sister-in-law, 'For… Read more about this item
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