The Bell Jar

first edition

1971 · New York

by PLATH, Sylvia
New York: Harper & Row, 1971. A particularly clean and well-preserved copy, price intact, no markings. 8vo. Original maroon quarter cloth; printed dust jacket designed by Amy Isbey Duevell, unclipped with $6.95 price preserved. First American edition of Plath's only novel, a semi-autobiographical roman à clef. It was originally published in 1963 under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas. It was published under her own name in the UK in 1967 – she tragically died by suicide one month after publication. The US edition was not published until 1971, in accordance with the wishes of her husband Ted Hughes and her parents. (Inventory #: 410221) (truncated)
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