INSCRIBED FOR HIS SON
Meet My Folks
Faber, 1967.
Second edition. Original illustrated paper covered boards in matching pictorial dustwrapper. Inscribed by Hughes for his son Nicholas, "For Nicky, love from Dad". Eight full page illustrations in line by George Adamson. A fine copy in a fine dustwrapper.
Inscribed copies of Hughes's children's books are uncommon.
This is the author's third collection of poetry and his first book of children's verse, written around the time Sylvia Plath was expecting their first child, Frieda, to whom this book is dedicated. George Adamson's finely drawn line illustrations are alive with the whimsical comedy of the poems, and both Hughes and Plath were delighted with them, writing to the artist 'We were pleased beyond our dreams at your illustrations of Meet My Folks [sic]—they were absolutely right'.
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