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Ariel
by Sylvia Plath
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good-
- Seller
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Winfield, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Copyright ends at 1965, No Edition, No Printing Stated. Last page has 72-73-74-75 10 9. The American Edition is the Second Edition. This is a First American Edition with a 1972 (later) Printing. The dust jacket has some soiling with tears at edges of the spine and corners, see photos. Book itself is in Near Fine condition with the exception of a stain inside the cover which transferred to the FEP and bled onto two pages beneath. (Lowered the rating to Very Good). The black boards with blue lettering have bumped spine edges.
Synopsis
The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963. 'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded ...They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity ...the book is a major literary event.' -- A. Alvarez in the Observer
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Details
- Bookseller
- booksnvintage
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 928
- Title
- Ariel
- Author
- Sylvia Plath
- Illustrator
- Jacket Desiy by Ellen Baskin
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket $4.95, 0666 bottom corner.
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good-
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American Edition (which is actually the second edition) La
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Harper & Row
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1972
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Sylvia Plath# Poetry# Depression# Suicide
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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About the Seller
booksnvintage
Biblio member since 2008
Winfield, Illinois
About booksnvintage
booksnvintage is an on-line bookseller that specializes in more contemporary books that are hard to find, first editions, educational, or in some way special. A picture is worth a thousand words which is why the majority of my listings have at least one photo.
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- Spine
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