First edition. Large 8vo., original black cloth, dust jacket. London, Faber and Faber, 1993.
Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper: “To Fay, with love, Ted, November 1993”. The dedicatee is Fay Godwin (1931-2005), a celebrated British landscape photographer who had collaborated with Hughes on the book Remains of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence. She had been married to the publisher Tony Godwin and for many years was Chair of the Ramblers’ Association. A fine copy in dust jacket, slightly rubbed at the extremities.