Hardcover. 8vo. 85 pp. Black cloth boards stamped with light blue lettering and designs. With original ivory dust jacket, not price clipped and the date code of "0666" at the bottom. Interior pages clean. Grolier Book Shop sticker on the bottom left corner of the flyleaf. "First Edition" statement and correct date code of "D-Q" on the copyright page. Overall, a very attractive copy of these poems written in the last months of her life: "Sylvia Plath becomes herself, becomes something imagined newly, wildly and subtly created." 

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. With his neat ownership signature to the ffe. 

Frank Bidart was a student and collaborator of Robert Lowell, eventually becoming a close friend and amanuensis to the elder poet, later and co-editing Lowell's Collected Poems. The relationship was a key aspect of Lowell's later career, with Bidart serving as a sounding board and collaborator during the writing of poems from 1970 until Lowell's death.