INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES
HUGHES, Ted (author). George ADAMSON (illustrator). Meet My Folks! London; Faber And Faber. 1961.
Large square 8vo. Original pictorial boards, in pictorial dustwrapper; pp. [x], 11- 42; illustrated throughout in line; a near fine copy in similarly fresh and unclipped dustwrapper with just a touch of shelf-rubbing to bottom edge of lower board; scarce signed.
First edition of Ted Hughes' first book for children, inscribed in ink to the front free endpaper by Ted Hughes, "To Michael Freyer with my best wishes from Ted Hughes April 1st 1966 Zetlands Hotel". Michael Freyer was the proprietor of The Brown Jacket bookshop in Dublin.
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