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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957. First American Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine+. Second Printing (copyright page with I-G code) of the poet's first collection, published one month after the first, dedicated to Sylvia Plath, and signed by Hughes on title page. Slim Crown 8vo: x,[2],52pp. Publisher's black coated cloth, spine and upper cover stamped in gold; yellow illustrated dust jacket designed by Caroline Harris, printed in dull grayish-blue and priced $2.75. An excellent example, signed, with bright gilt and paste-downs free of usual staining from binder's glue; Near Fine or better jacket, embrowned at edges and along spine panel. Sagar & Tabor A1b. A collection of 40 poems, as in the London edition (published five days earlier) but rearranged. After their honeymoon in France and Spain, the Hughes returned to Cambridge. Plath, who considered her husband's poetry the "most rich and powerful since that of Yeats and Dylan Thomas, had typed out almost all his poems and submitted them, as The… Read More