Adam and the Sacred Nine. With a Drawing by Leonard Baskin. The Rainbow Press, 1978. First Edition, Limited Issue. Full blue polished calf, gilt stamped spine lettering with raised bands at head and tail, floral and avian printed endpapers. A fine bright copy. Housed in publisher’s slipcase.

Limited Edition of 200 Numbered Copies, Signed by Ted Hughes.

Frontispiece drawing of a rising Phoenix by Leonard Baskin, Hughes’s frequent artistic collaborator.

The “Sacred Nine” of the title—divine birds sent as guardian spirits—arrive in response to Adam’s static suffering, tasked with instructing him on how to live.