Selected Poems by Fainlight Harry Ruth (3 results)

Blue Artificial Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Ralph Steadman (dust jacket) (illustrator). First Edition. v, 78pp. Unread copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Steadman, Ralph (cover design) (illustrator). 2nd Edition. Fine in fine dust jacket Edited and with an introduction by Ruth Fainlight. Includes memoir by Allen Ginsberg and a poem, "To be Harry", by Ted Hughes. Cover design by Ralph Steadman. Second edition limited to 1000 copies.

First edition. A posthumous selection edited with an introduction by Ruth Fainlight the author's sister and fellow poet. Royal octavo. pp [vi], 78. Blue leatherette covers. One of 1000 copies. One page memoir by Allen Ginsberg. Poem by Ted Hughes: ''To Be Harry''. Presentation copy from the editor, inscribed by her on the front free endpaper: ''in memory of Stephen and Harry's friendship - and for Natasha, with much affection and respect from Ruth. 18.xi.98''. The recipients are the poet Stephen Spender and his wife. Spender's letters to Fainlight are in the latter's papers held at Indiana University.Fine in very good indeed, slightly nicked dustwrapper designed by Ralph Steadman.