THE COLOSSUS
First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime.
First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime.
Signed first edition of Bishop's first book, along with the original ticket from Bishop's reading where the book was signed.
Mimeographed reading list from Sylvia Plath's Fall 1952 sophomore English 221 class at Smith College, with her handwritten notes — including library call numbers for the titles on the list and comments on an upcoming blind date.
Original signed contract for Plath's appearance in SEVENTEEN for her short story "And Summer Will Not Come Again."
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.