THE DEDICATION COPY
Meet My Folks
Faber, 1961.
First edition. Original illustrated paper covered boards in matching pictorial dustwrapper. The dedication copy, inscribed prior to publication to Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath's daughter Frieda, "To Frieda, on her first birthday from Da, with love April 1st, 1961." Eight full page illustrations in line by George Adamson. A near fine copy, with a trace of wear to the bottom edge in a very good dustwrapper in with light wear to the extremities ad spotting to the rear panel.
The dedication copy of Hughes' first collection of children's verse and third collection of verse overall (the first two being dedicated to Sylvia). The verses were composed around the time Sylvia Plath was expecting their first child, Frieda, which is unlikely to be a coincidence and the book is appropriately dedicated to her, with publication conveniently coming at the time of her first birthday. 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".
PROVENANCE: Frieda Hughes, gift inscription from her father Ted Hughes.
Stock ID: 44516
£7,500.00
