Hardcover. 8vo. 84 pp. Publisher's bright green cloth in fine condition, in a fine un-clipped dj. Interior pages clean and bright.
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.
An exceptional copy of the only volume of poetry by Plath that was published before her death in 1963. The first American Edition, published two years after the UK edition in 1960, notably excluding 10 poems previously included in the Heinemann first edition. Allegedly the editors at Knopf felt they were too obviously Roethke inspired, thus the 50 poems were cut to 40 in this edition. Tragically Plath would take her life less than a year after the publication of this edition.
Hardcover. 8vo. 84 pp. Publisher's bright green cloth in fine condition, in a fine un-clipped dj. Interior pages clean and bright.
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.
An exceptional copy of the only volume of poetry by Plath that was published before her death in 1963. The first American Edition, published two years after the UK edition in 1960, notably excluding 10 poems previously included in the Heinemann first edition. Allegedly the editors at Knopf felt they were too obviously Roethke inspired, thus the 50 poems were cut to 40 in this edition. Tragically Plath would take her life less than a year after the publication of this edition.