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London: William Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's original black cloth-affect boards with spine lettered in gilt. Very Good+ with light lean to binding, spotting to textblock edge. Light tanning to contents and endsheets lightyl foxed. In a Very Good+ unclipped dust jacket with light wear, tanning and foxing, vertical crease to front flap. Plath's semi-autobiographical novel, published in the UK under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas eight years before its first American appearance. Plath committed suicide less a month after its initial publication, cementing the book's reputation as a tragically unheeded cry for help. It is now perhaps the single most iconic female coming-of-age story.