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 very clean copy. Dust jacket condition very good, corners slightly rubbed, price clipped. With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of an intimate and candid narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963.

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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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Bookseller: Lazarus Books Limited (GB)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 014196
Title: Birthday Letters : Poems
Author: Hughes, Ted
Format/Binding: Cloth Bound Boards
Book Condition: Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First Edition Fourth Impression
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0571194729
ISBN 13: 9780571194728
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Place of Publication: London
Date Published: 1998
Keywords: MARRIAGE_POETRY POETRY (POETIC WORKS BY SUICIDE
Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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