BROADSIDE. - Ted HUGHES. Pike. Massachusetts, Northampton: The Gehenna Press, 1959. Limited edition, being one of 200 copies, this one signed, single leaf (519 x 404mm.) Woodcut illustration in green and black by Robert Bermelin, poem in two columns. (Browning, large creases, spotting to top right.) Unbound as issued. Note: the first publication of this poem which was later published in Hughes' second collection, Lupercal, in 1960. This was the first collaboration between Hughes and Leonard Baskin. The Poems is signed 'For Clapham Slim, from Ted'. 'Clapham Slim' was the name used by Joe Lyde, jazz trumpeter. Lyde and Hughes met at Cambridge and remained friends until Lyde's death in 1976. In her biography of Hughes, Elaine Feinstein called Lyde 'a wild mercurial figure' who 'was one of the people Hughes sought out with most enthusiasm when he returned to Cambridge'.Buyer’s (including @ ) of the price. Lots purchased online via will attract an additional of (including @ ) of the price.