Anne Sexton. First edition, stated first printing. Dust Jacket: Near Fine. Has a smudge line but it's on mylar wrapper not jacket. An unclipped jacket with original price ($5.00) still intact. Hardcover: Near Fine. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1971. Preface written by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. Drawings by Barbara Swan. Other than previous owner signature on flyleaf, no writing or markings in the book, 111 (112) pp. A beautiful from a beautiful poet.
These poem-stories are a strange retelling of seventeen Grimms fairy tales, including "Snow White," "Rumpelstiltskin," "Rapunzel," "The Twelve Dancing Princesses," "The Frog Prince," and "Red Riding Hood." Astonishingly, they are as wholly personal as Anne Sexton's most intimate poems.
Anne Sexton won a Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for Live or Die (1966).
