Ted Hughes – How The Whale Became and Other Stories – First Edition 2000 – SIGNED by the illustrator
£85.00
A first illustrated edition, first printing of How The Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes, published by Faber and Faber, London in 2000, illustrations by Jackie Morris. A near fine copy SIGNED, dated and and illustrated with a whale in black ink by Jackie Morris to the verso of the half title page, some toning and spotting to the top edge of the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with fading to the spine, chipping to the head of the spine and a closed tear to the lower knuckle of the front flap fold.
First published in 1963, How the Whale Became is Ted Hughes’s imaginative collection of animal creation stories for children. In playful, poetic prose, Hughes explains how creatures such as the whale, fox, polar bear and donkey came to possess their distinctive shapes and habits. Drawing on myth, folklore and fable, the stories combine humour, wonder and a feeling for the natural world. The book reveals Hughes’s gift for making elemental ideas vivid, strange and memorable.
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A first illustrated edition, first printing of How The Whale Became and Other Stories by Ted Hughes, published by Faber and Faber, London in 2000, illustrations by Jackie Morris. A near fine copy SIGNED, dated and and illustrated with a whale in black ink by Jackie Morris to the verso of the half title page, some toning and spotting to the top edge of the text block. In a near fine unclipped wrapper with fading to the spine, chipping to the head of the spine and a closed tear to the lower knuckle of the front flap fold.
First published in 1963, How the Whale Became is Ted Hughes’s imaginative collection of animal creation stories for children. In playful, poetic prose, Hughes explains how creatures such as the whale, fox, polar bear and donkey came to possess their distinctive shapes and habits. Drawing on myth, folklore and fable, the stories combine humour, wonder and a feeling for the natural world. The book reveals Hughes’s gift for making elemental ideas vivid, strange and memorable.
