Remains of Elmet: Poems by Ted Hughes Photographs by Fay Godwin

The theme and genesis of this book, a memorable collaboration between two outstanding talents, are described by Ted Hughes in these words: The Calder valley, west of Halifax, was the last ditch of Elmet, the last British Celtic kingdom to fall to the Angles. For centuries it was considered a more or less uninhabitable wilderness, a notorious refuge for criminals, a hide-out for refugees. Then in the early 1800s it became the cradle for the Industrial Revolution in textiles, and the upper Calder became “the hardest worked river in England”. Condition: a good copy with worn covers and small ex-libris stamp to half-title page.