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HUGHES**, TED: : COLLECTED POEMS FOR CHILDREN. [illus by Raymond Briggs.**]

LONDON.Faber & Faber Limited,2003.

ISBN 0571215017.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 10 - 1 descending.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,crisp,clean,matt,wrap-around colour pictorial artwork by Raymond Briggs, illustrated dw/dj with brown lettering to front and spine; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+ fore-edges bright,crisp and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - virtually pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread,apart from my own collation.Publisher's brigth,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain burgundy cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip,a red+ black striped headband and immaculate colour pictorial artwork by Raymond Briggs,illustrated endpapers.UK,8vo HB+ dw/dj,1st edn,v-xiipp+3-259pp [paginated] includes contents list/table,7 sections: The Mermaid's Purse, Meet my Folks!, Nessie the Mannerless Monster,Moon Whales and other Moon Poems, Under the North Star, some poems from What Is The Truth?, Seasons Songs, and separate indices of titles and first lines,all with profuse b/w line illustrations by Briggs,within the text body and page edges; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,and sections' individual separator pages. Overall a really exceptional example in an excellent state of preservation and cleanliness - the brightest copy handled! This collection brings together the poems Ted Hughes wrote throughout his life for children.They are arranged by volume, beginning with those younger readers and progressing to the more complex and sophisticated poems of "Under the North Star and What is the Truth?", and" Season Songs",which he remarked were written 'within hearing' of children. Hughes reveals his instinctive grasp of a child's insatiable curiosity, humour and invention, and his own incomparable understanding of the natural world,in poems that engage and stretch the imagination in a way no other poet has done before or since. Raymond Briggs brings to the collection drawings that capture the wit, gentleness and humanity of these poems and make this a book any reader will return to again and again for inspiration and reassurance. Ted Hughes was born in Yorkshire.His first book,' The Hawk in the Rain',was published in 1957 by Faber and Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children.He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry,'Tales from Ovid' (1997) and 'Birthday Letters' (1998).He was Poet Laureate from 1984,and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit. Raymond Briggs was born in Wimbledon Park,South London,in 1934,and has produced some of the most cherished and admired picture-books of our time,including 'Father Christmas','Fungus the Bogeyman', 'The Snowman','When the Wind Blows' and 'Ethel and Ernest.' He has won numerous awards including the Kate Greenaway Medal for Illustration,the Children's Book of the Year Award and the British Book Awards' Best Illustrated Book of the Year. Please contact seller,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas customers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! ** N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch, especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US customers please be aware: US Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to USA can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence,then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj, 1st edn.
Not SIGNED.

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