First edition, first printing, issued in an initial print run of only 2000 copies. Publisher's original blue cloth boards, no dust-jacket, fresh and unworn, with bright yellow titles stamped to spine; square and tight; excellent internally, with no signs of wear, no toning or soiling, no old inscriptions; some light spotting to endpapers and preliminary pages and similar flecking to page edges. The writer's remarkable prize-winning first book of poetry containing forty poems, dedicated to his wife Sylvia Plath. Seller Inventory # 19118

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Bibliographic Details

Title: THE HAWK IN THE RAIN

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Publication Date: 1960

Binding: Hardcover

Edition: 1st Edition

Book Type: Book

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Antiquarian and second-hand bookstore in the heart of fashionable Chelsea, in London, an area famed for its links to bohemian London and the beau monde scene of the 1960s and 70s.

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Worlds End Bookshop (ABA, PBFA, ILAB)
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