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Hughes, Ted
(HOLD A) What is the Truth?
Publisher: Faber and Faber LTD, London;
Date of Publication: 1984
Stock Code: 12415
Signed First Edition. Quarto, pp., 127, [1]. Signed by Ted Hughes and R. J. Lloyd to half-title and with a lino-print signed by the artist loosely inserted. Publisher’s terracotta cloth with gilt title on dark brown panel to spine, in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket designed by Pentagram and illustrated by Lloyd. With a dent through lower board (approx. 2 cm) and associated small tear to jacket rear panel, otherwise clean and bright, A very good copy overall in like jacket. Winner of the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize, “What is the Truth?” is the 2nd in a series of 4 “animal poems” written by renowned poet and author Ted Hughes. £280.00