PLATH, Sylvia. Ariel. London: Faber and Faber. 1965.
8vo. Original red cloth lettered in gilt to the spine, in the unclipped dustwrapper designed by Berthold Wolpe; pp. 86, [2]; cloth a little rubbed and faded to spine tips, small faint stain visible to lower edge of the front panel, wrapper rubbed, creased, and with a couple of closed tears (and just a touch of loss) to upper spine tip, a little toning to margins of rear panel; a near fine copy in like wrapper.
A bright, sharp, first edition, first printing of Sylvia Plath’s posthumously published swansong, and masterpiece.
The poems collected in Ariel, edited posthumously by Ted Hughes, were written between the publication of Plath’s first volume, The Colossus (1960), and her death in 1963. They are the poems she will be remembered for. The jacket, designed by the great Berthold Wolpe, is one of the high points of twentieth-century book design. Published 11 March 1965, 3100 copies were printed.
Tabor A5a.
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