Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems

Sylvia Plath. First U.S. edition (stated), first printing. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. An unclipped jacket with original price $5.95 on inside flap. Jacket design by Amy Isbey Duevell. Hardcover: Near Fine. NY: Harper and Row, 1971. No writing or markings in this beautiful book of poetry, 56 pp. Has full number line on page 56 from ...10-1.

Published posthumously, this was Plath's third book, of poetry and fourth overall. She had one book of prose, The Bell Jar. In terms of poetry books published by this time, was Ariel and The Colossus. 

Plath's ex-husband, Ted Hughes, compiled and published this second posthumous collection of his late wife's works consisting of thirty-four poems. "In a brief introductory statement, he notes that "With few exceptions, the poems in this volume were written in 1960 and 1961; that is, after the publication of The Colossus [Plath's first book] and before the composition of the poems in Ariel.