HUGHES, Ted. The Iron Woman. London: Faber and Faber. 1993.
Tall 8vo. Black cloth over boards with silver title lettering to spine; illustrated wraparound dust jacket with graphic image of the Iron Woman and the waste-disposal factory; pp. xi, 87, [3]; very minor creasing to the top edge of dust jacket and bottom of spine of jacket; otherwise near fine.
First edition, signed by Ted Hughes with a private, additional description to friend Nick Grant; "For Nick / a bedtime story / with love / Ted / September 1993".
The Iron Woman is a science fiction novel written by Hughes as a sequel to his much acclaimed 1968 novel The Iron Man featuring engrossing illustration from Andrew Davidson. The Iron Woman is a testament to Hughes's devotion to nature in its loud appeal for humankind to counter the pollution of the earth via industrial waste. The Iron Woman is Hughes's vessel for this prescient message as she comes to seek vengenence for society's relentless destruction and oblivious decimation of the natural world order.
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