Ariel [Fifth Printing, O5]
$300
By Sylvia Plath
Early reprint of her most famous collection
In stock
Description
- Fifth Impression [Faber & Faber, London, 1972]; 86, [2 blank] pages; red cloth, gold titling to spine, a fine copy; in excellent, unclipped dustjacket, spine slightly darkened, spine ends bumped with 5mm chip at base
- 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
- ISBN: 0 571 07060 4 / 0571070604



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