Birthday Letters

Later printing. Light blue cloth boards with white lettering to spine. Dust jacket sunned to spine, otherwise fine. *** Ted Hughes’s last collection of poetry (he died in the year of publication), a bestseller at the time and still one of his most popular works of poetry. ‘Widely considered to be Hughes’s most explicit response to the suicide of his estranged wife Sylvia Plath in 1963, and to their widely discussed, politicized and “explosive” marriage.’