Sylvia Plath. Stated first U.S. edition. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1972. Unclipped dust jacket is in Very Good condition, with white markings on back-side of jacket. Hardcover is in Very Good+ condition with no marking or writing found inside, 64 pp. Full number line (page 64) denoting first printing. Dust jacket design by Gloria Adelson.
A first U.S. edition, first printing of Sylvia Plath’s Winter Trees, her fourth and final individual collection of poetry. Published posthumously, the collection brings together poems written during the final period of Plath’s life and also includes Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices, her verse drama originally written for BBC radio. (AbeBooks UK)
This copy is the stated First U.S. Edition with the full number line ending in “1” on page 64, confirming the first printing. Contemporary bibliographical listings identify this number-line configuration as characteristic of the first printing. (Jett W. Whitehead - Rare Books)
The book is bound in the publisher’s gray cloth and lavender paper-covered boards, with illustrated endpapers. The original dust jacket features a photographic design by Gloria Adelson, with a portrait of Plath by photographer Rollie McKenna. (Left Bank Books)
A collectible first printing of an important posthumous Sylvia Plath collection, particularly desirable for collectors of modern first editions, twentieth-century poetry, and women writers.
