Crossing The Water [1st US]
$110
By Sylvia Plath
Posthumous publication of her third collection of poems
In stock
Description
- First US Edition [Harper & Row, New York, 1971]; viii, 56 pages; grey paper over mustard cloth boards, silver titling to spine, rough-cut fore-edge, corners gently bumped, top edge slightly sunned, an excellent copy; in like illustrated dustjacket, poorly price-clipped, v. slightly rubbed at extremities
- Poems written between release of The Colossus [1960] & those written in late 1962 that would later appear in Ariel
- Ten poems were previously published in Uncollected Poems [Turret Books, London, 1965]
- Stated First American Edition on copyright page plus full number line on pp56
- SBN: 06-013366-X / 006013366X



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