Description

• Seventh Printing [Harper & Row, New York, 1971]; octavo; [viii], 296 pages; purple cloth, silver titling on spine, lightly sunned along top edge, faint off-setting of jacket title on cloth spine, light scratch on front board where jacket slicing has penetrated, a little bumped at corners & spine ends, faded pink topstain, deckled edges, an excellent copy; in the very good dustjacket, unclipped [$6.95 & 0471 per first-issue], 3cm slice on front to fore-edge & tape repair verso, front flap base has purple stain verso leached from boards, bumped at extremities
• Semi-autobiographical novel originally published in London in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas [due to the depiction of main protaganist Esther Greenwood’s increasingly strained relationship with her mother, Plath did not want her own mother to read it]
• The Bell Jar was not released in Plath’s native US until this edition – eight years after her death
• Includes eight of Plath’s own pen-&-ink illustrations
• Cover design by Amy Isbey Duevell
• With biographical note by Lois Ames at rear
• SBN: 06-013356-2 / 0060133562