Sylvia Plath. First American edition, third printing. New York: Harper and Row Publishers, 1971. Dust jacket is unclipped with original price $6.95 on inside flap. Jacket is in a mylar protective wrapper, designed by Amy Isbey Duevell. Has the publication date, 0471, also on inside front flap. Both jacket and hardcover are in Very Good+ condition. Has gutter code ending in "3” on page 296. Biographical note by Lois Ames and drawings by Sylvia Plath.
Red cloth with silver emblem on cover and lettering on spine. Former owner signature on inside cover, otherwise, no writing or markings in the book, 296 pages.
This was Plath's final publication of poems The Collected Poems (1981), won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1983. Book was first published in 1963 in the U.K. under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas"; this edition published in New York, 8 years later and under her own name.
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.
