Plath Emil (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good- condition. First Edition. xviii, 201 pages of text including a bibliography and an index. Illustrated with a color frontispiece, eight black and white plates containing 18 illustrations, and 20 black and white in-text figures. Original hardcover binding is heavily sunned on the spine and rear board, with significant rubbing to the head of the spine, and small spots of discoloration. Lacks the dustjacket; protected in custom-fitted archival Mylar. Inscribed and signed by the author on the front endpaper "To the Fultzes with the compliments of [signed] O.E. Plath." The author of the book, who is the father of poet Sylvia Plath, died when she was eight years old. The text is clean and unmarked. Height = 221mm. First edition. Signed by Author(s).

Leatherbound. Condition: NEW. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1919 edition. NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set and contains approximately 20 pages. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Language: English.

Condition: Very good plus. First printing. Rare inscribed first edition of this classic study of the lives, loves, and passionate crimes of the Bee, by the father and sometime literary subject of Sylvia Plath, poet and beekeeper. Otto Plath was a biology professor and entomologist with particular expertise in bees and beekeeping, an interest that began in boyhood. BUMBLEBEES AND THEIR WAYS was the sole book he published during his lifetime; Otto died (from complications from diabetes) when his daughter was just eight years old, and Plath most famously addressed their relationship in her controversial poem "Daddy." But references to bees, both literal and metaphorical, appear throughout her work, perhaps especially in the five poems of her bee sequence, folded into the center of ARIEL by Ted Hughes's reordering. They were originally intended as the conclusion to that book and the occasion of her exuberant declaration in 1962 that "I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name." Earlier that year, the couple had become beekeepers, Plath writing to her mother that the furiously unboxed new bees, obeying some unfailing instinct, had swarmed Hughes and crawled in his hair but left her unstung. In the final bee poem, "Wintering," in the slow "time of hanging on for the bees," they wait cold and quiet: "Will the hive survive, will the gladiolas / Succeed in banking their fires / To enter another year? / What will they taste of, the Christmas roses? / The bees are flying. They taste the spring." BUMBLEBEES in an uncommon book on the market, and is especially so signed. This copy is inscribed to Conrad Rohe, who sold the Plaths their house at 92 Johnson Avenue in Winthrop, MA in 1937. The house had been built for Rohe just half a block from the ocean in the mid to late 1920s and the Plath family lived at the house until 1942. The house loomed large in the young Sylvia Plath's imagination: "Sylvia would have felt the bracing wind of the sea from her earliest days [.] She would have seen the change as it refracted off the ocean over the course of an afternoon [.] She would have heard the sound of gulls constantly. It was here that she chose to sanctify her earliest memories, here that she began an infatuation with the sea that would become a touchstone throughout her life" (Clark 36). Already a scarce book, this an association copy with important resonance in and influence on a major 20th-century poet. 8.5'' x 6''. Original gilt-stamped blue cloth. Color frontispiece. Color plates and additional black-and-white illustrations. Lacking original dust jacket. 201, [1] pages. Inscribed by Otto Plath on front free endpaper "Mr. Conrad Rohe / with the compliments of O. E. Plath." Light edgewear and scuffing to extremities, spine faintly sunned. Signed.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1934 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 252 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 252.