Description

• Third Printing Thus [Faber & Faber, London, 1971]; octavo; [iv], 258, [2 blank] pages; black cloth, silver titling on spine, grubby mark top corner first page, a near-fine copy; in like dustjacket, unclipped [£1.75 net], some light marks
• Semi-autobiographical novel originally published 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]
• Plath’s name first appeared on The Bell Jar with the first Faber printing [1966]
• Iconic cover design by Shirley Tucker [uncredited]
• One of 2000 copies [making 6000 hardcover copies printed in total – Tabor, pp16]
• ISBN: 0 571 06782 4 / 0571067824