Hardcover. 8vo. 55 pp. Publisher's royal blue cloth with silver titles to spine in fine condition. Dust jacket fine with light rubbing to rear, interior pages clean and bright. The poems in this collection were all written in the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life, and form part of the group from which the Ariel poems were chosen. Her radio play, Three Women, also included here, was written slightly earlier, in the transitional period between The Colossus and Ariel.

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.