Colossus by Sylvia Plath, First Edition (27 results)

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Colossus was Sylvia Plath's first published volume of poetry. 'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, super sensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously . . . There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. Alvarez in the Observer A new edition of Sylvia Plath's first published volume of poetry. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

First Edition, First Printing thus as Vintage Books pocket paperback. -- Softcover, 83 pages. Condition: very good minus (spine faintly sunned; owner name; page margins tanned).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. 3rd Printing. 88pp. Photos on request Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Paperback. Condition: Vlery Good. First Vintage Books Ed., Sept, 1968. 83pp. Slight wear. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim 8vo, printed wrappers, [viii], 84, i pp. First Paperback Edition. A Very Good to Fine copy, though the text block is yellowing with age.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First UK paperback edition, 1972. Rear cover has a small hole/damage near the bottom corner. The final page, no.88 has been rubbed in the same area. Covers have light shelfwear. Pages lightly tanned but clean. Binding firm.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Colossus was Sylvia Plath's first published volume of poetry. 'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, super sensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously . . . There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. Alvarez in the Observer A new edition of Sylvia Plath's first published volume of poetry. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The Colossus was Sylvia Plath's first published volume of poetry. 'She steers clear of feminine charm, deliciousness, gentility, super sensitivity and the act of being poetess. She simply writes good poetry. And she does so with a seriousness that demands only that she be judged equally seriously . . . There is an admirable no-nonsense air about this; the language is bare but vivid and precise, with a concentration that implies a good deal of disturbance with proportionately little fuss.' A. Alvarez in the Observer A new edition of Sylvia Plath's first published volume of poetry. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. uk1st.edition.1st.printing(originally published 1967 this is the first reprint-1968) vg hardback-neat name fep in a vg dustwrapper.a nice looking copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 83 pp. Spine slightly cocked, page edges sunned, page corners lightly bumped. Jacket sunned, a bit dustsoiled, with a few tiny chips and closed tears at edges. First American Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good + Dj. First Edition. A very attractive copy. Previous owner's neat ink chop on the front end paper in a nice dust jacket that has some light wear at the extremities. First Faber edition published 7 years after the Heinemann true first. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition Thus. Originally published by Heinemann in 1960, this is the Second British Edition of 1967. A Fine copy in dull dark orange cloth, in a Near Fine cream, grey and maroon dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with faint toning of spine panel and one tiny tear to crown. 88pp. Plath's first collection. Q21064.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 189 pages; 1975 Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow. HC/DJ. A collection of Plath's poems from the first 4 published collections of her work, presented in facing page English and in Polish translations. Cream colored cloth lettered in blue in original dust jacket lettered in blue and black. Coated blue paper endsheeets. Collection edited by Teresa Truszkowska, who has added an afterword. The first two signatures (pages 1-30) are a little loose from the binding threads and the original owner long ago placed some cello tape in the gutters of pages 29 - 32 to reinforce this looseness. Some offset staining from the old tape in the gutter margins. Prior ownership inkstamp of Vincent Balitas, poet and Plath scholar, who wrote his dissertation on Plath and was teaching in Poland as a Fulbright Scholar in the 1970's. Mild toning to jacket at spine. Faint damp storage odor. Though there is a little weakness in the binding threads at front, this collection of Plath in translated Polish is quite uncommon, with only 12 or so copies held by institutions and no copies showing available for sale at any recent point in time. G++/VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Thus. This copy of Colossus by Sylvia Plath is in wonderful condition the Dust Jacked has very minimal wear at the edges and is in a see through removable protector, the book itself bound in red / orange cloth is as new. This a first edition thus published by Faber & Faber in 1967 the true first edition was published by Heineman in 1960 . 88 PP.

Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, 84 pages, green cloth with title stamped in dark green on the spine and author's initials embossed on front cover. Top edge stained red. Dust jacket is unclipped, but has edgewear and a half inch chip to top of spine. Rear panel of dj is soiled and has a stain which also affects the rear cloth cover, but no pages inside.Previous owner's signature on front fly leaf. Record # 411764.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition. Second printing.Near fine but for 0wner bookplate and stamp on frontis. No DJ/.

Hardcover; First Printing. Condition: VG+. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. A very nice copy of Ms. Plath's first collection. Minor wear to the book. DJ has some minor edgewear and one small chip on the rear. ; 8.43 X 5.67 X 0.71 inches.

First edition, first printing The poet's first book. With a back cover fullness of the poem "Watercolor of Grantchester Meadows." Very close to fine green boards in like dust jacket. Quite a handsome copy all around and becoming scarce in this fine condition. Dedicated "For Ted".

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good Plus. First Edition. First American Edition, First Printing. A Fine copy in green cloth, magenta topstain, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed, in a Very Good or better dark blue first issue dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with slight toning of extremities, spine panel, and trivial wear to points. 84pp. Plath's first collection of verse, published earlier in England. Q22507.

First edition. Publisher's green cloth in original white printed dustwrapper. Ownership inscription of Roy Fuller to front free endpaper. A bright, fine copy, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, the spine a little toned as usual, but crisp. Plath's first collection of poetry, the only one published in her lifetime. In a letter to her mother of March 1960 Plath reports meeting Roy Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings and Christine Brooke-Rose at a London Magazine party, noting "I must get them all in my diary". The following year Fuller wrote a positive review of The Colossus for The London Magazine, saying "The language of this poetry is unusual but not eccentric, with a great gift for the right epithet, the metaphoric noun". Tabor A2.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good +. 1st Edition. Spine lightly faded else a very attractive copy of this elusive first edition. Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a very good copy in the dust wrapper with some light staining to the edges. Not inscribed or price clipped. Plath's first collection and the only to be published during her lifetime. Scarce.

First edition. Publisher's green cloth in original white printed dustwrapper. Loosely laid in is "A Poet's Epitaph", Al Alvarez's notice of Plath's death in The Observer Weekend Review of 17th February 1963. A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, slightly tanned to spine and with a very short closed tear the to lower joint. Plath's first collection of poetry, the only one published in her lifetime. Tabor A2.

First edition of the first complete volume of poetry to be published by Plath and the only volume published in her lifetime. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Housed in a custom half morocco slipcase. An exceptional example. With this startling, exhilarating book of poems, which was first published in 1960, Sylvia Plath burst into literature with spectacular force. In such classics as "The Beekeeper's Daughter," "The Disquieting Muses," "I Want, I Want," and "Full Fathom Five," she writes about sows and skeletons, fathers and suicides, about the noisy imperatives of life and the chilly hunger for death. Graceful in their craftsmanship, wonderfully original in their imagery, and presenting layer after layer of meaning, the forty poems in The Colossus are early artifacts of genius that still possess the power to move, delight, and shock. "[Her poems] have that exquisite, heart-breaking quality about them that has made Sylvia Plath our acknowledged Queen of Sorrows, the spokeswoman for our most private, most helpless nightmares. . . . Her poetry is as deathly as it is impeccable; it enchants us almost as powerfully as it must have enchanted her" (Joyce Carol Oates).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Edition, First Printing with the words "FIRST AMERICAN EDITION" printed on the copyright page. A spectacular copy. This First Issue dustjacket is rich in color with NO chips or tears and has the publisher's $4.00 printed price present. The book is in amazing shape and appears UNREAD. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning and the boards are crisp. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a stunning copy of this TRUE FIRST EDITION.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's green cloth with spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine with, light ridge to backstrip, light foxing to text block edges and endsheets. In a Very Good price-clipped dust jacket with foxing and toning, light edge wear, and paper-tape reinforcement at verso. Plath's first published book of poetry, the only publication she witnessed during her short lifetime. Lane 2.

First Edition. THE COLOSSUS AND OTHER POEMS, Heinemann, 1960, first edition, fine in vg+/near fine dust-wrapper with some light tanning and two closed tears.