NEW, FIrst Edition, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956, Illustrated

London: Faber & Faber, 2017. NEW, NF/F. First Edition. First printing. The book is tight with some give to the hinges (it weighs over 4 pounds), good tips, and clean boards. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Ribbon bookmark. 32 photos and illustrations. The dust jacket is unclipped (£35.00) and Fine. Protected in a new Mylar cover. 1383 pages. 6½ x 9½".

This remarkable, collected edition of Plath's letters is a work of immense scholarship and care, presenting a comprehensive text of the known and extant letters that she wrote to over one hundred and twenty correspondents, including her husband Ted Hughes, to whom previously unseen letters are now revealed. The edition reproduces previously unknown photographs, and a gathering of Plath's own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, offering generous insight into the life of one of our most significant poets.