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First edition

Birthday Letters

Ted Hughes
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998. First edition, first printing.
$25One copy · this copy
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Book
Fine
Jacket
Near Fine
Jacket note
The dust jacket grades Near Fine.
Our ref
RCB-094cd6b5dac2
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-094cd6b5dac2 · 9 photographs of this copy
✓
Copyright page states "First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 1998"
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Dust jacket flap priced "U.S.A. $20.00" (not book club)
examined on the copy in hand
✓
ISBN 0-374-11296-7 on rear jacket with $20.00 barcode
examined on the copy in hand
✓
FSG imprint, 19 Union Square West, New York address
examined on the copy in hand
✓
No later-printing statement present
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
light rubbing and a few small scuffs to jacket spine and near the torn-paper design edge
see it — photograph 8
2
faint edge/creasing at top of rear jacket panel
see it — photograph 4
This copy
First edition

What a true first shows: First Farrar, Straus and Giroux edition, 1998; priced jacket at U.S.A. $20.00, ISBN 0-374-11296-7. The UK Faber edition of the same year is a separate first; this is the true US first issue.

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.