A story in five nights
DEDICATION COPY
The Iron Giant A story in five nights
Harper & Row, 1968.
First American edition. A dedication copy, inscribed by Hughes to his and Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda, "For Frieda, love from Dad". Original blue boards and pictorial dustwrapper. Illustrated with drawings by Robert Nadler. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper, with trivial wear to spine ends and corners, and a couple of small grazes to the spine.
Ted Hughes dedicated his well-loved children's story The Iron Man (published in America as The Iron Giant to avoid confusion with a contemporary cartoon serial) to his three children Nicholas, Frieda and Shura. The book, Hughes wrote to a student studying his works for children, emanated from "a story I told my own children" (The Letters Of Ted Hughes, Faber, 2007), and according to his biographer Jonathan Bate is "Ted's best selling and best-loved work. It firmly established his place as one of the world's leading children's authors as well as one of its most admired poets."
Stock ID: 46724
£3,750.00
