Gaudete. New York: Harper & Row, 1977. First American Edition. Quarter linen, paper boards, in publisher’s pictorial dust jacket. A fine bright copy.

Signed by Ted Hughes on second free endpaper.

The poet’s first major work since The Crow (1971) & regarded as a provocative work that blends poetry and narrative. The book centres on the story of Reverend Lumb, a clergyman who is abducted by spirits and replaced with a doppelgänger tasked with creating a new fertility cult.

Dust jacket design by Leonard Baskin.