Description

• Stated 1st US Edition [Harper & Row, New York, 1971]; octavo; [viii], 296 pages; cloth boards with pink topstain & deckled edges, light wear to corners, else fine, in the fine dustjacket
• Cover design by Amy Isbey Duevell
• Plath was an American who grew up in Boston – due to the thinly veiled autobiographical nature of this book and the depiction of Esther Greenwood’s mother, The Bell Jar was originally published in the UK under a pseudonym [Victoria Lucas] & not released in the US until this edition – eight years after Plath’s death
• Including a biographical note by Lois Ames
• With eight pen-&-ink drawings by Plath
• Review copy with submission slip loosely inserted
• SBN: 06-013356-2 / 0060133562