WOLF-WATCHING

First edition, first printing. Signed by the author. Presentation copy. Publisher's original unbound, folded, paper sheets, hand-printed in black and red printed in Centaur on Michaelangelo paper, hand-made by Milano Fabriano. Colophon illustration (designed by the author), drawn by Leonard Baskin. In very good or better condition with faint spotting to the edge of the outer pages, otherwise clean and bright.

Inscribed by Ted Hughes in black ink at the bottom of the colophon (here the rear cover) "For Frank / greetings / from Ted / 31st August 1984". 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. Printed and published by Hughes' son Nicholas under his Morrigu Press imprint in an edition of 75 numbered and signed copies (those sewn into grey paper covers). This example, seemingly from the poet or publisher's personal stock, is therefore outside of this limitation. (Sagar and Tabor A79).