The Bell Jar [1964]
$1,500
By Victoria Lucas [Sylvia Plath]
Scarce early printing of this iconic novel
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Description
- First Thus [Heinemann, London, 1964]; octavo; [iv], 258, [2 blank] pages, original green papered boards with pink topstain, minor mark to bottom front corner, occasional light foxing, an excellent copy; in the very good dustjacket, wear & light chipping to extremities, spine darkened, rear lightly marked & creased
- Published under Heinemann’s Contemporary Fiction imprint, this is the usually referred to as a Book Club Edition & was the last edition with the Victoria Lucas pseudonym
- Cover design by acclaimed illustrator Dodie Masterman [used across the Contemporary Fiction range]
* Victoria Lucas is a pseudonym, and we are not in a position to disclose any details of the author’s identity – jacket text



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