The Magic Apple Tree: Poems by Elaine Feinstein [Uncorrected Proof Copy]

The Magic Apple Tree by Elaine Feinstein. Uncorrected proof copy, Hutchinson & Co Ltd, London, Provisional date 19th April 1971. Note in Frieda Hughes' hand on scrap of paper laid in "Feinstein 1971. The Magic Apple Tree. Uncorrected proof". Very good in card wrappers, staining to foot of front cover and a few pages. Feinstein was a close friend of Ted Hughes who would go on to write his biography. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonhams, London (21 March, 2018) which she described in the catalogue as 'redolent of my parents' joint history... the books and the pamphlets and the poems signed by my mother and father, represented important aspects of their literary lives and were evidence of their powerful partnership.' Most of these items contain the Bonhams sale bookmark and can be accompanied by a signed guarantee of the item's authenticity from modernfirsteditions.