Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2008
ISBN 10: 0571240089 ISBN 13: 9780571240081
Language: English
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Fairfield, OH, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
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Published by New York, Random House Vintage Books., 1968
Language: English
First Edition
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: 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.
Published by Vintage Books, New York, 1968
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
Softcover. Condition: Very Good. First Vintage Books edition. Wrappers. Rubbing with a tiny nick on the front cover, very good.
Seller: The Owl Book Service, Quedam Shopping Centre, SOMER, United Kingdom
First Edition
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.
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.
Published by Faber and Faber, 1967
Seller: Brooklyn Rare Books, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First Printing.
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition Thus. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 88 pages; 1967 Faber and Faber. HC/DJ 1st printing of the Faber edition, published 7 years following the Heinemann 1st edition. Snugly bound and unmarked in original typographic dust jacket. Jacket price clipped front flap. An apparent tea spill has left a light damp tide line along the edges of the spine panel and slightly darkened the spine; damp line also along the cloth of the spine, joints and top edge of the upper board. No damp evidence to endpapers or pages of the book. A few drop stains top edge. Solid and still generally attractive but flawed. VG-/VG-.
Published by Gambier, OH: Kenyon College, 1960
Seller: Philip Smith, Bookseller, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st edition. VG. 8vo, 192pp, printed wrappers. Contains the original appearance of the story The Comforts of Home by Flannery O'Connor (Farmer C.1960.3; later included in Everything That Rises Must Converge). Also includes two poems by Sylvia Plath (The Colossus and The Beekeeper's Daughter, preceding their book publication), an essay by Robert Graves, a review by Russell Kirk, etc. Unmarked copy with a little wear and soil. Not Signed.
Published by Faber and Faber, London, 1967
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
First 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.
Published by Faber & Faber Ltd, London, 1967
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Cloth. Condition: Very Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 1st Edition Thus 1967. First edition of the Hughes 'translation' Book is very good++ and bright. Contents good. Small inscriptions to endpaper and small label mark. The wrapper is very good with rubbing to edges and slightly age toned/foxed rear. More images can be taken upon request.Ref18635.
Published by London: Faber and Faber, 1967, 1967
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
First Edition
[Poetry] FIRST FABER EDITION, second printing. Octavo (22 x 15cm), pp.88. Publisher's orange cloth with silver titles, typographic dust-wrapper priced at 18s. 6d. Slightly dusty but essentially a clean, near fine copy.
Published by FABER & FABER, LONDON, 1967
Seller: Elder Books, Ross on Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST FABER EDITION. HARDBACK IN THE ORIGINAL CLOTH BINDING WITH THE ORIGINAL DUST JACKET PRICED AT 18s. HALF TITLE. BOOK MEASURES APPROX 9 x 6 INCHES. MINOR EDGE WEAR WITH A FEW MINOR CHIPS TO EDGES OF JACKET, SPINE & REAR OF JACKET BROWNED, SMALL INSCRIPTION DATED 1968 TO FRONT ENDPAPER, LIGHT MARKS TO ENDPAPERS. OVERALL A VERY GOOD COPY WITH PAGES & CLOTH COVER CLEAN & BRIGHT. PLEASE NOTE THAT THE JACKET HAS SOME REFLECTIONS PRESENT IN IMAGES FROM THE CLEAR REMOVABLE COVERING. EXTRA POSTAGE COSTS MAY APPLY TO OVERSEAS ORDERS. ALL BOOKS POSTED IN STURDY BOOK BOX.
Published by Wydawnictwo Literackie, Krakow, 1975
First Edition
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.
Published by Knopf, New York, 1962
Seller: Monroe Street Books, Middlebury, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Knopf, NY, 1962
Seller: Mostly Useful Fictions IOBA, Commack, NY, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1967, 1967
Seller: Longhouse, Publishers & Booksellers, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
First Edition
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".
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
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.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: April Star Books, Banstead, United Kingdom
First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. A fine uncorrected proof copy of Sylvia Plath's first collection of poetry (and the only collection of poetry published in her lifetime), published by Heinemann in 1960. Printed in Kingswood, Surrey. Wraps are clean and in lovely condition, with barely any marks or signs of use. Bottom corner has a crease; minor crease on bottom corner of the lower wrap, otherwise the wraps are in excellent condition. Text block is clean; barely visible small water stain to bottom edge of text block. Spine is in excellent shape. Internally unmarked. No foxing or spotting. Minor light folding to bottom corner of earlier pages. Hard to find in this condition. Housed in a custom-made drop-back box.
Published by William Heinemann Ltd., 1960
Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 88pp. Her first collection of poetry & the only one to be published in her lifetime. The book is very slightly faded at the head of its spine. The unclipped dust jacket has two short closed tears & very slight loss at head of spine. Book.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
First Edition
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.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: April Star Books, Banstead, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first print. Copy with the ownership name of Miriam Baggett, a friend of Sylvia Plath s mother Aurelia; some of Aurelia s frank correspondence to Miriam is quoted in 'Red Comet: the Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath' (Heather Clark; 2020). Miriam's copy has no jacket, but is internally very clean and unmarked. Olive green buckram boards. Silver gilt lettering to spine. Light spotting to the upper edge of text block. Slightest of leans, light rubbing to the spine foot and top of spine. The first edition, first print of Plath's first published collection of poetry. Printed at the Windmill Press, Kingswood, Surrey. Original green cloth, gilt-lettered on spine (slightest wear at ends of spine).
First printing. First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original publisher's full green cloth. In original unclipped (15s) printed jacket. 88 pages. Jacket with three old internal repairs to verso with some light discoloration to recto, some moderate toning at the spine, and two very short tears. Book lightly bumped at a couple corners. Neat contemporary owner's inscription (the bookseller Nial Devitt) to front pastedown. Else clean and sound. Near fine in a very good jacket.
First Edition. Octavo. The poet's first regularly published book. Fine in a very good price-clipped jacket, lightly foxed and darkened at the spine.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: April Star Books, Banstead, United Kingdom
First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition, first print, with the ownership inscription of Frieda Hughes, Sylvia Plath's daughter, to the half-title page. Former library copy, with embossed library stamp to front cover, partially removed library plate from the paste-down endpaper, neatly excised front free endpaper, 'Westminster Public Library' perforation to the title page; library stamp to the copyright page; small library stamp to the final poem page; rusted paperclip mark to four pages; tears to the top of two pages. Library catalogue stamp to spine. Mark on rear cover. No jacket. One of the original print run of 500 copies, with a strong family association through the ownership name of Frieda Hughes. Provenance: Frieda Hughes.
Published by Heinemann, London, 1960
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
First Edition
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.
Published by Heinemann (1960), London, 1960
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
First Edition Signed
8vo, original green cloth, dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket. Signs of use, but a very good copy in worn and soiled dust jacket First edition of Plath's first regularly published book. Presentation copy, inscribed by Plath on the front free endpaper: "For Luke & Cynthia / with love - / Sylvia / April 13, 1961." A highly important association copy, rich in personal interest and history: E. Lucas (Luke) Myers, an aspiring writer from Tennessee, was intimately connected to Ted Hughes and Plath. Plath met Luke Myers at Cambridge, where she and Myers were studying, and admired his poetry and fiction. In her journal entry for February 25, 1956, she wrote: "I have learned something from E. Lucas Meyers (sic) although he does not know me and will never know I've learned it. His poetry is great, big, moving through technique and discipline to master it and bend it supple to his will. There is a brilliant joy, there, too, almost of an athlete, running, using all the divine flexions of his muscles in the act. Luke writes alone, much. He is serious about it; he does not talk much about it. This is the way." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals (London: Faber & Faber, 2000), p. 207. On March 3, Plath commented on Myers' fiction: "A chapter - story from Luke's novel arrived, badly typed, no margins, scrawled corrections, & badly proofread. But the droll humor, the atmosphere of London & country which seeps indefinably in through the indirect statement: all this is delicate & fine. The incidents & intrigues are something I could never dream up . . . Nothing so dull & obvious & central as love or sex or hate: but deft, oblique. As always, coming unexpectedly upon the good work of a friend or acquaintance, I itch to emulate, to sequester." - Plath, The Journals, p. 344. Luke Myers was a close friend of Ted Hughes, and it was outside the chicken coop behind the rectory of St. Botolph's Church that Myers rented from Mrs. Helen Hitchcock, the widow of a former rector, that Hughes used to pitch his tent on weekend visits to Cambridge University, from which he had graduated a year and a half before. St. Botolph's rectory "was a poets' haven, anarchic and unjudgmental", with Mrs. Hitchcock "turning a blind eye to the capers, bibilous and otherwise, of her undergraduate lodgers, of whom she was very fond." - Anne Stevenson, Bitter Fame: A Life of Sylvia Plath (London: Viking Penguin, 1989), p. 73. In February, 1956, a group of young Cambridge poets including Luke Myers, Ted Hughes, Daniel Huws and David Ross, among others, had just put together a little magazine appropriately named the St. Botolph's Review after Luke Myers' digs where they often gathered, and the launch party for the magazine (of which only one issue was published) was to be the occasion for the first fateful meeting between Plath and Hughes on Saturday, February 25, 1956. Plath, who had read some of the poetry by the St. Botolph's group - and two of whose own poems had been criticized recently by one of them, Daniel Huws, in the student magazine Chequer - purchased a copy of the Review on the morning of the party, and memorized several of Hughes's poems in anticipation of attending the party and meeting him. According to Plath's journal entry, after dancing for a while with a drunken, "satanic" Luke Myers, she ran into Hughes. Amid the crush of the party, "I started yelling again about his poems and quoting: âmost dear unscratchable diamond' and he yelled back, colossal, in a voice that should have come from a Pole, âYou like?' and asking me if I wanted brandy, and me yelling yes and backing into the next room . . . And then it came to the fact that I was all there, wasn't I, and I stamped and screamed yes, . . . and I was stamping and he was stamping on the floor, and then he kissed me bang smash on the mouth and ripped my hair band off, my lovely red hairband scarf which has weathered the sun and much love, and whose like I shall never again find, and my favorite silver earrings: hah, I shall keep, he barked. And when he kissed my neck I bit him long and hard on the cheek, and when we came out of the room, blood was running down his face." - Sylvia Plath, The Journals, pp. 211-212. As Diane Middlebrook put it: "Ted Hughes may not have been looking for a wife that night, but Sylvia Plath was looking for a husband, and Ted Hughes met her specifications exactly." - Diane Middlebrook, Her Husband: Hughes and Plath - A Marriage (London: Viking, 2003), p. 5. A month later in London, Hughes, not wanting "to declare his interest . . . asked Lucas Myers to play go-between. Myers could meet Plath for a drink somewhere, then just drop in on Hughes at the flat on Rugby Street, as if by chance. Myers admits in his memoir that he had taken a dislike to Plath, and that he agreed to this ploy reluctantly. He duly invited Plath to join him and Michael Boddy, another of Hughes's friends, at a pub called the Lamb, in Conduit Street - a poets' hangout - and shortly afterward suggested a visit to Hughes. It didn't take long to see that Hughes and Plath wanted to be alone." Later that night, at Plath's hotel, they spent - in Plath's words - a "sleepless holocaust night" together. - Middlebrook, p. 24. Soon after, Hughes left the job he had in London and moved to Cambridge, sharing a flat with Myers in Tenison Road, meeting Plath every day, and abruptly marrying her on Bloomsday, June 16, 1956 - secretly, with Plath's mother, Aurelia, the only family member at the wedding. In later years, Myers was witness to the difficulties in the marriage, and aware of its tenuous nature. In a measured attempt to explain "Sylvia's behavior and volte-faces between pleasantness and bitchiness" to Olwyn Hughes in a letter dated March 12, 1960, Myers wrote: "I have the feeling that it is best to think of Sylvia as being always pretty much as she was this weekend . . . Ted suffers a good deal more than he would ever indicate or admit, but he.
Published by Heinemann, 1960
Seller: Jonkers Rare Books, Henley on Thames, OXON, United Kingdom
First Edition
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.