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Hughes, Ted; R. J. Llloyd (illustrator).
What is the Truth?
Publisher: Faber and Faber, London;
Date of Publication: 1984
Stock Code: 12518
First edition. Quarto, pp., 127. Signed by both Ted Hughes and illustrator R. J. Lloyd to the half-title page; with an original signed illustration by the artist in pencil and water-colour to half-title. Also with an additional three dated signatures from Lloyd: in pencil to title-page pictorial, half-title illustration and verso half-title pictorial. Publisher’s terracotta cloth with gilt title on brown label to spine in an unclipped, pictorial dust-jacket. A fine copy. 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. Beautifully illustrated by R. J. Lloyd, with an original watercolour illustration of mountains and the moon, not found within text. £380.00