SOLD. Sylvia Plath. First edition, later printing. BCE. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket designed by Amy Isbey Duevell. In mylar protective wrapper. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. Red cloth with silver emblem on cover and lettering on spine. No writing or markings in the book, 311 pp. Biographical note by Lois Ames and drawings by Sylvia Plath.
Her final publication of poems The Collected Poems (1981), won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983.
The autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, details the life of Esther Greenwood, a college student who dreams of becoming a poet. She is selected for a month-long summer internship as a guest editor of Ladies' Day magazine, but her time in New York City is unfulfilling as she struggles with issues of identity and societal norms.
