POEMS

First edition, first printing. Limited edition of 300 copies, each numbered and signed by Ruth Fainlight, Ted Hughes and Alan Sillitoe. This copy is no. 11. Set in Bembo and Poliphilus types and printed at Daedalus Press, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk on Saunders mould made rag paper. Bound by Davis & Hodges, London, in full green calf, lettered in gilt to the spine and rear, the front panel with The Goddess Isis by Athanasius Kircher ('Oedipus Aegyptiacus', 1652-1654) blocked in gilt. Hand-printed Japanese endpapers. Top edge green. In the publisher's olive green calf slipcase. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. The slipcase a little rubbed and nicked to the top edges, folds and corners.

Signed by the three poets in black ink to the colophon at the back of the book. Featuring six poems each by Fainlight and Hughes, and seven by Sillitoe. Although unmarked as such, this copy is from the library of Frank Pike, drama editor at Faber and Faber and friend of Ted Hughes. (Sagar and Tabor A29).