Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems

Plath, Sylvia

ISBN 10: 006013366X / ISBN 13: 9780060133665

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, 1971

About this Item

First printing of the stated first U.S. edition. Tiny bump/crimp to bottom corner, faint tanning to cover margins and light erasure to upper corner of the lavender front-free endpage, else book in fine condition; dust jacket with a short closed tear to bottom spine end and faint wear to a couple corners, else fine.

Seller Inventory # 004329

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Crossing the Water: Transitional Poems
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 006013366X
• ISBN 13: 9780060133665
• Binding: Hardcover
• Illustrator: Amy Isbey Duevell
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • A Collection of Poetry
  • Modern First Editions
  • A Collection of Women Writers

About this title

Synopsis

The Poetry of Sylvia Plath.

About the Author

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.