A story in five nights
A DEDICATION COPY
The Iron Giant A story in five nights
Harper & Row, 1968.
First American edition. A dedication copy, inscribed by Hughes to his son Nicholas, "For Nicky, love from Dad". Illustrated with drawings by Robert Nadler. A near fine copy indeed in a very good dustwrapper indeed with a little wear to the head of 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."
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