HUGHES, Ted. Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories. London:Faber and Faber. 1995.
8vo. Blue cloth boards with white title lettering to spine, brown pictorial dust jacket; pp. ix, [1], 159, [1]; minor creasing to top of dust jacket; fine.
A first edition, intimately inscribed by Ted Hughes to his close friend Nick Grant, "For Nick/a psycho-political autobiography/in nine chapters/from your affectionate friend/Ted/31st September 1995".
"These nine pieces hang together, in my own mind, as an accompaniment to my poems" writes Hughes in the foreword to Difficulties of a Bridegroom. Published just three years before Hughes's death, the collection is one of eight short stories and one radioplay, (The Wound), all written over a span of four decades.
SKU: 2121053
HUGHES, Ted. Difficulties of a Bridegroom: Collected Short Stories. London:Faber and Faber. 1995.
8vo. Blue cloth boards with white title lettering to spine, brown pictorial dust jacket; pp. ix, [1], 159, [1]; minor creasing to top of dust jacket; fine.
A first edition, intimately inscribed by Ted Hughes to his close friend Nick Grant, "For Nick/a psycho-political autobiography/in nine chapters/from your affectionate friend/Ted/31st September 1995".
"These nine pieces hang together, in my own mind, as an accompaniment to my poems" writes Hughes in the foreword to Difficulties of a Bridegroom. Published just three years before Hughes's death, the collection is one of eight short stories and one radioplay, (The Wound), all written over a span of four decades.
SKU: 2121053
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