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Published by Vintage, 1998
ISBN 10: 0375704469ISBN 13: 9780375704468
Seller: ZBK Books, Carlstadt, NJ, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. Pages and cover are intact. Used book in good and clean conditions. Limited notes marks and highlighting may be present. May show signs of normal shelf wear and bends on edges. Item may be missing CDs or access codes. May include library marks.
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Published by Gardners Books, 1972
ISBN 10: 0571098649ISBN 13: 9780571098644
Seller: PAPER CAVALIER US, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
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Condition: good. A good reading copy. May contain markings or be a withdrawn library copy.
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Published by Vintage, 1968
ISBN 10: 0394704665ISBN 13: 9780394704661
Seller: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
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Condition: Good. Book is in Used-Good condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain limited notes and highlighting.
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Paperback. Condition: Vlery Good. First Vintage Books Ed., Sept, 1968. 83pp. Slight wear. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.
Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. 12mo, 83 pp. Wrappers sunned, rubbed and edgeworn, lower wrapper corners creased.
First Edition, First Printing thus as Vintage Books pocket paperback. -- Softcover, 83 pages. Condition: very good minus (spine faintly sunned; owner name; page margins tanned).
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim 8vo, printed wrappers, [viii], 84, i pp. First Paperback Edition. A Very Good to Fine copy, though the text block is yellowing with age.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1967
Seller: Your Book Soon, Stroud, GLOS, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. xi / 86 pp, green cloth with black title to spine, blindstamped design to front, top edges red. Stain to top part of front cover, nick to top edge of rear cover, inscription to front pastedown, pages clean and firmly held, dust wrapper faded on spine, edges rubbed with nicks and small tears along top edges.
Published by Faber and Faber, 1972
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Faber 1972 Reprint. Clean tight copy, Pages clean and bright. Dust juacket condiiton very good. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Published by Faber & Faber, 1967
ISBN 10: 0571081061ISBN 13: 9780571081066
Seller: HALCYON BOOKS, LONDON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Faber & Faber 1967. Reprint. Hardcover with tight binding. Condition: Very Good. Clean and bright text. Includes a dust jacket, price clipped, in fine condition. ALL ITEMS ARE DISPATCHED FROM THE UK WITHIN 48 HOURS ( BOOKS ORDERED OVER THE WEEKEND DISPATCHED ON MONDAY) ALL OVERSEAS ORDERS SENT BY TRACKABLE AIR MAIL. IF YOU ARE LOCATED OUTSIDE THE UK PLEASE ASK US FOR A POSTAGE QUOTE FOR MULTI VOLUME SETS BEFORE ORDERING.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1967
Seller: Rosley Books est. 2000, WIGTON, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good Plus. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. LONDON : 1966. [ The 'First Faber Edition'. First published by Heinemann, 1960; the only volume published in her lifetime.]. Hardback. Original red cloth; silver lettered spine. In white bold printed dust-jacket (not price-clipped). No owner name or internal markings. Bright, tight and clean. Jacket spine slightly dulled and faintly stained; wear only to jacket (one small closed-tear and tiny nick). Minor marks to front cover of book. VERY GOOD INDEED in VG jacket; now in a clear protective sleeve. 86 pages. 8vo. **Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].
Published by London: Faber and Faber, 1967, 1967
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Poetry] FIRST FABER EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.88. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 18s. 6d. Slightly dusty but essentially a clean, near fine copy.
Published by FABER & FABER, LONDON, 1967
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST FABER EDITION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 18s. HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. MINOR EDGE WEAR WITH A FEW MINOR CHIPS TO EDGES OF JACKET, SPINE & REAR OF JACKET BROWNED, SMALL INSCRIPTION DATED 1968 TO FRONT ENDPAPER, LIGHT MARKS TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH PAGES & CLOTH COVER CLEAN & BRIGHT. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Published by Alfred A Knopf, 1967
Seller: tim hildebrand books, Janesville, WI, U.S.A.
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Hard cover book with dust jacket. Second printing. Book is in excellent condition. Dust jacket has very slight chipping, some yellowing on back cover.
Published by Knopf, New York, 1962
Seller: Carrington Bookshop, South Nyack, NY, U.S.A.
HC/DJ. First American Edition. Interior VG+, DJ worn at top of spine, else good+.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1962
Seller: Second Wind Books, LLC, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition
Condition: Fine / Very good. First American Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards bright and fresh, front panel embossed. Top edge red; 83,[7] pp. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper. A fine copy, in very good, later issue dust jacket whose typography, binding, and design is by Vincent Torre. The price remained the same at $4.00, and in every other regard is identical, but the text refers to Ms. Plath in the past tense. First American edition, as stated. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston in 1932, and lived in England with her husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, and her two children until her death at thirty. This book was published in England in a somewhat different form by William H. Heinemann Ltd. in 1960. There was a second impression of the American first edition in 1967. An absolutely stunning poet of enormous talent, this is the only collection of her poetry published in her lifetime. .
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1962
Seller: Elder's Bookstore, Nashville, TN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Clean, crisp copy. Dust jacket has normal age wear, in very good shape. Book and pages have little to no marks or wear. Green cloth cover is still a vibrant green. ; 87 pages.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1967, 1967
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition, first printing The poet's first book. With a back cover fullness of the poem "Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows." Very close to fine green boards in like dust jacket. Quite a handsome copy all around and becoming scarce in this fine condition. Dedicated "For Ted".
Published by Heinemann, London, 1960
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a very good copy in the dust wrapper with some light staining to the edges. Not inscribed or price clipped. Plath?s first collection and the only to be published during her lifetime. Scarce.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
First Edition
First Edition. THE COLOSSUS AND OTHER POEMS, Heinemann, 1960, first edition, fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some light tanning and two closed tears.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
First edition. Publisher's green cloth in original white printed dustwrapper. Loosely laid in is "A Poet's Epitaph", Al Alvarez's notice of Plath's death in The Observer Weekend Review of 17th February 1963. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, slightly tanned to spine and with a very short closed tear the to lower joint. Plath's first collection of poetry, the only one published in her lifetime. Tabor A2.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1960
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
First Edition
First edition of the first complete volume of poetry to be published by Plath and the only volume published in her lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example. "With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock. "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: Blackwell's Rare Books ABA ILAB BA, Oxford, United Kingdom
FIRST EDITION, a few tiny spots largely restricted to prelims, pp. 88, crown 8vo, original green cloth, backstrip lettered in gilt, edges and endpapers lightly spotted, the flyleaf with the ownership inscription of Frieda Hughes (see below), dustjacket with a sprinkling of faint spots, very good. Her daughter's copy of the poet's debut collection - the book was published in the year of Frieda Hughes's birth. Aside from the superb association, this is an excellent copy. (Tabor A2a).
Published by Heinemann (1960), London, 1960
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
8vo, original green cloth, dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket First edition of Plath's first regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Plath on the front free endpaper: "For Luke & Cynthia / with love - / Sylvia / April 13, 1961." A highly important association copy, rich in personal interest and history: E. Lucas (Luke) Myers, an aspiring writer from Tennessee, was intimately connected to Ted Hughes and Plath. Plath met Luke Myers at Cambridge, where she and Myers were studying, and admired his poetry and fiction. In her journal entry for February 25, 1956, she wrote: "I have learned something from E. Lucas Meyers (sic) although he does not know me and will never know I've learned it. His poetry is great, big, moving through technique and discipline to master it and bend it supple to his will. There is a brilliant joy, there, too, almost of an athlete, running, using all the divine flexions of his muscles in the act. Luke writes alone, much. He is serious about it; he does not talk much about it. This is the way." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals (London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. 207. On March 3, Plath commented on Myers' fiction: "A chapter - story from Luke's novel arrived, badly typed, no margins, scrawled corrections, & badly proofread. But the droll humor, the atmosphere of London & country which seeps indefinably in through the indirect statement: all this is delicate & fine. The incidents & intrigues are something I could never dream up . . . Nothing so dull & obvious & central as love or sex or hate: but deft, oblique. As always, coming unexpectedly upon the good work of a friend or acquaintance, I itch to emulate, to sequester." - Plath, The Journals, p. 344. Luke Myers was a close friend of Ted Hughes, and it was outside the chicken coop behind the rectory of St. Botolph's Church that Myers rented from Mrs. Helen Hitchcock, the widow of a former rector, that Hughes used to pitch his tent on weekend visits to Cambridge University, from which he had graduated a year and a half before. St. Botolph's rectory "was a poets' haven, anarchic and unjudgmental", with Mrs. Hitchcock "turning a blind eye to the capers, bibilous and otherwise, of her undergraduate lodgers, of whom she was very fond." - Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (London: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 73. In February, 1956, a group of young Cambridge poets including Luke Myers, Ted Hughes, Daniel Huws and David Ross, among others, had just put together a little magazine appropriately named the St. Botolph's Review after Luke Myers' digs where they often gathered, and the launch party for the magazine (of which only one issue was published) was to be the occasion for the first fateful meeting between Plath and Hughes on Saturday, February 25, 1956. Plath, who had read some of the poetry by the St. Botolph's group - and two of whose own poems had been criticized recently by one of them, Daniel Huws, in the student magazine Chequer - purchased a copy of the Review on the morning of the party, and memorized several of Hughes's poems in anticipation of attending the party and meeting him. According to Plath's journal entry, after dancing for a while with a drunken, "satanic" Luke Myers, she ran into Hughes. Amid the crush of the party, "I started yelling again about his poems and quoting: â most dear unscratchable diamond' and he yelled back, colossal, in a voice that should have come from a Pole, â You like?' and asking me if I wanted brandy, and me yelling yes and backing into the next room . . . And then it came to the fact that I was all there, wasn't I, and I stamped and screamed yes, . . . and I was stamping and he was stamping on the floor, and then he kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hair band off, my lovely red hairband scarf which has weathered the sun and much love, and whose like I shall never again find, and my favorite silver earrings: hah, I shall keep, he barked. And when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals, pp. 211-212. As Diane Middlebrook put it: "Ted Hughes may not have been looking for a wife that night, but Sylvia Plath was looking for a husband, and Ted Hughes met her specifications exactly." - Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage (London: Viking, 2003), p. 5. A month later in London, Hughes, not wanting "to declare his interest . . . asked Lucas Myers to play go-between. Myers could meet Plath for a drink somewhere, then just drop in on Hughes at the flat on Rugby Street, as if by chance. Myers admits in his memoir that he had taken a dislike to Plath, and that he agreed to this ploy reluctantly. He duly invited Plath to join him and Michael Boddy, another of Hughes's friends, at a pub called the Lamb, in Conduit Street - a poets' hangout - and shortly afterward suggested a visit to Hughes. It didn't take long to see that Hughes and Plath wanted to be alone." Later that night, at Plath's hotel, they spent - in Plath's words - a "sleepless holocaust night" together. - Middlebrook, p. 24. Soon after, Hughes left the job he had in London and moved to Cambridge, sharing a flat with Myers in Tenison Road, meeting Plath every day, and abruptly marrying her on Bloomsday, June 16, 1956 - secretly, with Plath's mother, Aurelia, the only family member at the wedding. In later years, Myers was witness to the difficulties in the marriage, and aware of its tenuous nature. In a measured attempt to explain "Sylvia's behavior and volte-faces between pleasantness and bitchiness" to Olwyn Hughes in a letter dated March 12, 1960, Myers wrote: "I have the feeling that it is best to think of Sylvia as being always pretty much as she was this weekend . . . Ted suffers a good deal more than he would ever indicate or admit, but he.