Ariel [1st Ed, A11]
$1,750
By Sylvia Plath
First Printing of her most famous collection
In stock
Description
- First Printing [Faber & Faber, London, 1965]; 86, [2 blank] pages; red cloth, gold titling to spine, gently rubbed at corners, v. slight offsetting to eps, small dot on title page, a near-fine copy; in like, unclipped dustjacket, spine v. lightly sunkissed, extremities gently bumped with chips
- Written between publication of The Colossus & her death in 1963, this collection of poems established the Plath legacy
- From the Melanie Smith Collection of Sylvia Plath



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