ALTERNATIVE VALUES: Poems & Paintings.

First edition, first printing. Inscribed presentation copy. Original glossy card wraps, illustrated by the author. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the contents clean throughout. Tiny (c. 2 mm) laminate nick to the upper outer corner. Scarce signed.

Inscribed by the author in blue ink to the half title, "25th June 2016 / To Lynne, / Best Wishes / Frieda Hughes". "This large-format, handsome volume is a double gift: each of Frieda Hughes's intense, powerful poems is accompanied by a vibrant abstract painting, expressing this prodigiously gifted poet's visual interpretation of her own words. The cumulative effect is extraordinary, invigorating and sometimes painful, as the daughter of Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath bravely lays bare some of the pain she has endured." (Bel Mooney, in the 'Daily Mail')