WOLFWATCHING

First American edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Publisher's original red cloth with black titles to the spine, in Cynthia Krupat designed dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout. Complete with the lightly rubbed and spine-faded dustwrapper that is without loss or tears. Not price-clipped ($18.95 to the upper front flap).

Inscribed by the poet in black ink on the front endpaper "For Frank / Same again only different / love / Ted / 11 January 1991 / Devon". As the poet's inscription states, the American edition differs in several respects to that of the British first edition, which was published 15 months earlier. The recipient is Hughes' friend, Frank Pike, editor at Faber and Faber for 41 years and from the 1960s onwards responsible for the Faber drama list, recruiting Tom Stoppard, Simon Gray, Brian Friel, Sam Shepard, and Alan Bennett, among others, as well as working closely with authors already publishing with the firm, notably Samuel Beckett.