THE COLOSSUS
First US edition, association copy, of the only poetry collection published within Plath's lifetime — owned by Plath's former lover, friend, and supporter, the poet and editor Peter Davison.
First US edition, association copy, of the only poetry collection published within Plath's lifetime — owned by Plath's former lover, friend, and supporter, the poet and editor Peter Davison.
Original issue featuring an article on Plath's poetic accomplishments and marriage with Ted Hughes — including the first publication of her poem "The Times are Tidy."
Original autograph manuscript of one of Plath's earliest poems, in a version preceding the 1946 revision published in her junior high school literary magazine and collected nowhere else.
An original, bold portrait painted by a 16-year-old Sylvia Plath.
Original signed contract for Plath's appearance in SEVENTEEN for her short story "And Summer Will Not Come Again."
Sylvia Plath's annotated copy, read in her first year of study for the Tragedy Paper at Cambridge, with marginal notes connecting the text to her own 1953 breakdown immortalized in THE BELL JAR and a prophetic description of Ariel as a poet.
Collection of more than three dozen magazine appearances by Plath — including the first appearance in print of "Daddy" and "Lady Lazarus."