Ariel, The Restored Edition, A Facsimile of Plath’s Manuscript, Reinstating Her Original Selection and Arrangement by Plath, Sylvia - 2004

Harper Colllins, NY, 2004; First Edition, first printing; 8vo, 211 pages. Original selection and arrangement of the poems of "Ariel" as left by Sylvia Plath at the time of her death, with reproductions of the typed manuscripts for each work, plus facsimile copies of the entire working draft for the title poem "Ariel." Foreword by Frieda Hughes, Plath’s daughter, explaining the reasons for the differences between the previously published edition as edited by her father Ted Hughes, and her mother’s original, published here for the first time. Fine, in a Fine dust jacket.