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List of Rainbow Press Publications © Ann Skea
Price details are as presented in The Rainbow Press
advertising brochure, 1974. |
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Date |
Title of Book or Work |
Price Details |
No.of copies |
Bibliography Ref. |
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1971 |
Sylvia Plath: Crystal Gazer. Contents: Ballade Banale – Alicante Lullaby – Leaving Early – Notes on Zarathustra’s Prologue – Mad Girl’s Love Song – On the Plethora of Dryads – The Dream of the Hearse–Driver (The Dream)– Go Get the Goodly Squab – The Beggars – Circus in Three Rings – The Goring – Admonitions – Recantation – Crystal Gazer – Stopped Dead – Mirror – Face Lift – Zoo Keeper’s Wife – Heavy Woman – Last Words – Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers – Lament – Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, Among Lilies: A Sestina for the Douanier. |
1-20 (full vellum) £120 |
400 |
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1971 |
Poems Ted Hughes, Ruth Fainlight and Alan Sillitoe. Contents: |
(olive green leather) £18 |
300 |
A29 |
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1971 |
Sylvia Plath: Lyonnesse. Contents: A Winter’s Tale – Mayflower – Epitaph for Fire and Flower – Old Ladies’ Home – Wreath for a Bridal – Metamorphoses of the Moon – Owl – Child – Electra on Azalea Path – In Midas’ Country – Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives – Two Campers in Cloud Country – The Rabbit Catcher – The Detective – On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad – The Snowman on the Moor – Widow – The Other Two – Gigolo – Brasilia – Lyonnesse. |
1-10 (full vellum) £110 |
400 |
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1971 |
Ted Hughes: Eat Crow. Part of this play appears as the title poem of Crow Wakes (THCP 258). |
(full black calf) £16.80 |
150 |
A31 |
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1973 |
Ted Hughes: Prometheus on His Crag. Contents: 21 poems. Later pubished with three omissions and three additions in Moortown(THCP pp.285-96) The omitted poems are published in THCP pp.1258-9. |
(full purple morocco) £18.40 |
160 |
A39 |
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1974 |
Sylvia Plath: Pursuit. Contents: Dark Wood, Dark Water – Resolve – Temper of Time – The Shrike – Faun – The Lady and the Earthenware Head – Pursuit – Doomsday – Words Heard, by Accident, Over the Phone – Stings [2] – Spider – The Fearful – The Rival [2] – A Secret – Burning the Letters. |
(full leather) £60 |
100 |
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1974 |
Ted Hughes: Spring Summer Autumn Winter. Contents: Spring: April Birthday – Spring Nature Notes – The River in March – A March Calf – Deceptions. Summer: Hunting the Summer – Mackerel Song – The Golden Boy – Work and Play – The Harvest Moon. Autumn: Leaves – The Defenders – The Seven Sorrows – The Stag – There Came a Day. Winter: The Warrior of Winter – Solstice Song – New Year Song – Snow and Snow – The Warm and the Cold. |
(full natural calf) £32 |
140 |
A44a |
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1974 |
Thom Gunn: Mandrakes. Contents: The Plunge – Wresting with Angels – Saturnalia – An Amorous Debate – Faustian Triumph – Solus Ipse – The Idea of Trust – Mandrakes – Thomas Berwick – Breaking Ground. |
(quarter goat vellum) £40 |
150 |
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1975 |
Seamus Heaney: Bog Poems. Contents: Bone Dreams – Come to the Bower – Bog Queen – Punishment – The Grauballe Man – Tête Coupée – Kinship – Beldberg. |
(quarter morocco with morocco foredge strip)£40 |
150 |
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1976 |
Ted Hughes: Earth Moon. Contents: A Moon–Lily – Moon–Weapons – Moon–Mirror – The Moon–Oak – Mushrooms on the Moon – The Moon–Bull – Moon–Ways – Moon–Walkers – Moon–Wind – Moon–Ravens – Moon–Witches – The Moon–Hyena – Moon–Bells – Moon–Heads – Moon–Thorns – Singing on the Moon – Moon–Marriage – Moon–Wings – Moon–Shadow – Beggars – The Moon–Mourner – Moon–Whales – Moon–Theatre – Moon–Thirst – Moon–Clock – A Moon–Witch – Visitng the Moon – The Moon–Mare – The Moon–Haggis – Moony Art – A Moon–Hare – Earth–Moon. |
A-Z; 1-100 (full calf) £22 |
175 |
A48 |
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1978 |
Ted Hughes: Orts. Contents: The Fallen Oak Sleeps – Let that one – The Queen of Egypt – You Have Come – Skin – Air – At Some Juncture – So Much Going On – Huge Global Trouble – The Earth is Strong – Ophelia – The Express – Look Back – Sunday Bells – The Volcano – He Hears Lithe Trees – The White Shark – Eye Went Out to Hunt – He Sickened – Are They Children – Searching, – In the M5 Restaurant – At the Bottom of the Arctic Sea – The Buzzard Mews – For Weights of Blood – Where Shall I Put My Hand – Words Bring Wet Lumps of Earth – Sitting Under the Downpour – They Brought You – The Mother of the Tree – If Searchig Can’t Find You – Before I Was Born – Where You Wait – Stilled at His Drink – Children – Hathershelf – Your Eyes are Poor – Better, Happier – The Cathedral – After Years – Like the Future Oak – The Bulging Oak – A Cry – He Did All That – You Have Made Me – Each New Moment – Does it Matter – The Salmon’s Egg – Your Touch – Churches Darken – As Often – In the Zoo – The Engine – By the Splitting, Spilling – The Cat – The Cut Stone – Lucretia – Ophiochus – Twisted Mouths – A Wild Drop – He Sits Grinning – Before Dawn Twilight. |
(full calf) £50 |
200 |
A56 |
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1978 |
Ted Hughes: Moortown Elegies. Contents: Rain – Dehorning – Struggle – Poor Birds – Feeding Out – Wintering Cattle – Foxhunt – New Year Exhilaration – Snow Smoking – Bringing in New Couples – Tractor – Couples Under Cover – Surprise – Last Night – Ravens – February 17th – Roe–Deer – March Morning Unlike Others – Turning Out – She has Come to Pass – Birth of Rainbow – Orf – Happy Calf – Coming Down Through Somerset – Little Red Twin – Teaching a Dumb Calf – Last Load – While She Chews Sideways – Sheep, Parts 1 and 2 – A Monument – A Memory – The Day he Died – Now You Have to Push – The Formal Auctioneer – Hands. |
Author’s presentation copies |
175 |
A57a |
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1978 |
Broadside: Ted Hughes poems (4) from Moortown Elegies. Contents: Couples Under Cover – Teaching a Dumb Calf – February 17th – Ravens. |
(set of 12)£40 |
100 sets |
A57a2 |
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1979 |
Ted Hughes: Adam and the Sacred Nine. Contents: The Song – Adam – Awake! – All This Time His Cry – He Had Returned – And the Falcon Came – The Skylark Came – The Wild Duck Got Up With a Cry – The Swift Comes the Swift – The Unknown Wren – And Owl – The Dove Came – The Crow Came to Adam – And the Pheonix Has Come – Light – Bud–Tipped Twig – The Sole of the Foot. |
(full blue calf) £50 |
200 |
A59 |
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1979 |
Ted Hughes: Remains of Elmet. Contents: Six Years Into Her Posthumous Life – Remains of Elmet – Wild Rock – Heather – Churn–Milk Joan – Dead Farms, Dead Leaves – For Billy Holt – First, Mills – Where the Mothers – Spring–Dusk – The Word that Space Breathes – Mill Ruins – Grouse–Butts – The Sluttiest Sheep in England – These Grasses of Light – Willow–Herb – Under the World’s Wild Rims – The Sheep Went On Being Dead – Two – Mount Zion, Parts I and II, – Hill Walls – Haworth Parsonage – Long Screams – Walls – The Canal’s Drowning Black – Tick Tock Tick Tock – When Men Got to the Summit – It is All – Rhodedendrons – Top Withens – The Weasels – Light Falls – Heptonstall – Tree – Harcastle Crags – Football at Slack – The Big Animal of Rock – Hill–Stone was Content – Open to Huge Light – Auction – Moors – Lumb Chimneys – Where the Millstone of Sky – The Long Tunnel Ceiling – Bridestones – Brontë – Cock–Crows – Wycollar Hall – A Tree – High Sea–Light – April – Crown Point Pensioners – There Come Days – You Claw the Door – The Trance of Light – Angel. |
1-70(full treed calf) £140 |
180 |
A60a |
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1979 |
Henry Williamson: A Tribute by Ted Hughes. |
(hand-made Fabriano covers) £24 |
200 |
A68 |
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1981 |
Sylvia Plath: Dialogue Over a Ouija Board. |
(limp vellum) £84 |
100 |
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