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Howls & Whispers [Ted Hughes / Leonard Baskin]
$7,750
Poetry by Ted HUGHES / illustrated by Leonard BASKIN
Stunning letterpress production showcasing poems exploring the grief & guilt of Sylvia Plath’s death decades earlier
In stock
Description
- Stunning letterpress production from Leonard Baskin’s Gehenna Press, limited to just 110 copies [ours, nicely, is #110]; signed by both Hghes & Baskin on the limitation page
- Consists of 11 poems by Ted Hughes, each accompanied by a signed original, etching by Baskin
- Published in the year of Hughes’ death [1998], Howls & Whispers sits with Birthday Letters [published the same year] as a deeply personal reflection of his life with Sylvia Plath & her tragic death by suicide
- Limited Edition [Gehenna Press, Massachusetts, 1998]; 295x235mm; decorated paper over cloth boards with leather spine labels & corner trim, Italian handmade paper with deckled edges, 2 illustrations lacking the loosely inserted tissue guards, else a fine copy housed in the like custom clamshell box. An exquisite item!
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