TO BEDLAM AND PART WAY BACK by Sexton, Anne - 1960: Poems

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Paperback. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Houghton Mifflin, 0000-00-00. paperback. Used: Good.

Houghton Mifflin Company. Covers very worn, stained, browning at front hinge, owner name cut out, pen marks on one page, else pages very good. . Good. Soft cover. 1960.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1960. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton. 1960 Houghton Mifflin, ninth printing, 67 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sexton was a poet who's most well-known poems dealt with mental illness, death, and relationships with her family. She died by suicide at the age of 45. To Bedlam was her first book. According to the New York Times in reviewing a book of collected poems: "The poems in ''To Bedlam and Part Way Back'' (1960) and ''All My Pretty Ones'' (1962) present a savage, almost clinical documentation of madness, illness and pain, and they do so with the authority of a witness blessed with a strong and passionate voice."
Condition: Good. Some wear, owner name on inside cover
"You, Doctor Martin, walk
from breakfast to madness."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, soiled, and has large . tear to front jacket panel with yellowed tape repair.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Halfbound black cloth with gray paper-covered boards. Jacket art by Ellen Raskin. Author photo on rear jacket panel. Sextons first book, a collection of poems described by fellow poet Robert Lowell on the jacket blurb as verse which describes her very personal experiences with an almost Russian abundance and accuracy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 67 pages .

Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 1960. Second Printing. 67 pages. Dust jacket covered in removable plastic wrapper over black cloth to spine and grey paper to boards. Pages are bright and clear with no visible markings. Binding throughout remains firm. Mild annotations and marginalia to pages throughout. Boards have light edge wear with minor corner bumping. Mild crushing to spine, with occasional markings overall. Clipped jacket has light edgewear with tears and creasing. Notable rubbing and marking all over.

UsedVeryGood. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Mild tanning, otrherwise pristine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Second printing. Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo, 67 pp. Heel of spine lightly bumped, page edges sunned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled, edgeworn, with several small chips and tears.

Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1960. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 8x5x0. Hardcover. Stated Fourth Printing. Light shelf wear to blue cloth boards. Dust jacket has moderate wear to edges with small closed tear along top rear flap. Dust jacket in protective mylar wraps. Binding square and tight. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.