Modern poetry-A collection of 15 first editions, together with an autograph manuscript by ted hughes:

Hughes, Ted. Shakespeare's Poem. Lexham Press, 1971, one of 150 copies, original black wrappers and paper chemise, together with an autograph copy of "crow's song about prospero and sycorax" signed by hughes and decorated by him at the foot; What is the Truth? Faber and Faber, 1984, als by the author loosely inserted; Lupercal. Faber and Faber, 1960, jacket chipped; Wodwo. Faber and Faber, 1967, later impression, jacket chipped; Crow. Faber and Faber, 1971, reprint; Gaudette. Faber and Faber, 1977, jacket chipped; Season Songs. Faber and Faber, 1979, reprint; Birthday Letters. Faber and Faber, 1998-Eliot, T.S. "The Waste Land" [in] The Criterion. R. Cobden Sanderson, October 1922, original wrappers; Murder in the Cathedral. Faber and Faber, 1938, later impression; The Dry Salvages. Faber and Faber, 1941, signed by the author, original stiff wrappers; Little Gidding. Faber and Faber, 1942, original stiff wrappers-Larkin, Philip. The North Ship. The Fortune Press, [1945]; The Whitsun Weddings. Faber and Faber, [1964]; High Windows. Faber and Faber, 1974; first editions, original cloth bindings with dust-jacket, except where stated; 8vo (15)

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"When I took Lupercal off the shelf in a public library at the age of 23, I came alive to poetry and my experience of poetry came alive to me as if I were a battery being charged..." (Seamus Heaney, 2007)