The Colossus by Sylvia Plath, First Edition (30 results)

Paperback. Condition: Fair. First Edition. Ship within 24hrs. Satisfaction 100% guaranteed. APO/FPO addresses supported.

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.

Paperback. Condition: Collectable, good. 1st. First printing of the Vintage mass market paperback, 1968. Cover has moderate wear, slight dampstain on edges, pages quite tanned due to age, a few notes in text. G+ condition. ** We are a small family business selling fine new and pre-owned books online since 1999. We provide professional service and individual attention to your order, daily shipments, and sturdy packaging. FREE TRACKING ON ALL SHIPMENTS WITHIN USA.

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

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

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: 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. Solid unmarked copy with minor wear. Not Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Orange cloth boards, silver gilt titles to spine. The book is clean and firm inside and out, fine. The dust jacket is complete but has some yellowing to spine area and a small brown mark (coffee?) to lower inner edge of front & back panels.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. FIRST FABER EDITION 1967. (Definitive first was Heinemann, 1960). Vg+ hardback copy. Some pen inscriptions to front endpaper, which also has a label stain. Jacket has yellow speckling to edge of back cover. Photos on request. LISTING PHOTO DOES NOT NECESSARILY MATCH THIS COPY.

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.

xi, 84 [2] pp. 8vo, publisher's green cloth in dust jacket. First US edition. Ink ownership signature at head of front free endpaper; very slightest of scattered darkening to the cloth; clean, tight and sound in a jacket with some light soiling to the rear panel; very slight use at extremities, and faint tanning of the white lettering on the spine.

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

Condition: Fine / Very good. First American Edition. Octavo. Green cloth boards bright and fresh, front panel embossed. Top edge red; 83,[7] pp. Brief gift inscription on front free endpaper. A fine copy, in very good, later issue dust jacket whose typography, binding, and design is by Vincent Torre. The price remained the same at $4.00, and in every other regard is identical, but the text refers to Ms. Plath in the past tense. First American edition, as stated. Sylvia Plath was born in Boston in 1932, and lived in England with her husband, the English poet Ted Hughes, and her two children until her death at thirty. This book was published in England in a somewhat different form by William H. Heinemann Ltd. in 1960. There was a second impression of the American first edition in 1967. An absolutely stunning poet of enormous talent, this is the only collection of her poetry published in her lifetime. .

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".

Condition: Fine in near fine jacket. First printing. First US edition of the only Plath poetry collection published within the author's lifetime, originally published by Heinemann in 1960 and issued by Knopf two years later with several poems omitted. 8.5'' x 5.5''. Original bright green cloth. Red topstain. In original blue and cream dust jacket. Typography, binding, and jacket design by Vincent Torre. 83, [5] pages. Minor edgewear. Faint soil to rear jacket panel, spine lightly sunned.

First US edition, first printing, in exceptionally nice condition, of Plath's first and only collection of poetry issued during her lifetime. It was first published in the UK in 1960. Tabor A2c.1. Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine in dark green, author's initials to front board and publisher's device to rear board in blind, top edge red, fore edge untrimmed. With dust jacket. A fine copy in the like jacket, notably sharp and bright.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A very nice copy indeed the dust jacket has just a few fox marks on the front and the spine is slightly browned, just a few light fox marks on a few pages through out the book is in almost fine condition.

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.

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.

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 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.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Rare uncorrected proof copy of Plath's first published collection of poetry, Heinemann, 1960. The Colossus was the only collection of poetry published during the poet's brief 30-year life. The front wrapper bears the publication date and prospective price in biro. Original wrappers, not restored. A few marks and stains to the wrappers and rubbing to the edges. Tape residue to the front cover, where a label has been removed. Short splits to the top and bottom of the front wrapper hinge. Biro squiggle to rear cover. Internally clean. A good copy. Protected in a plastic sleeve and a black custom-made box. More photos can be provided.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Sylvia Plath, presentation copy of The Colossus and other Poems, heart-warmingly inscribed on the front-free endpaper to Susan O Neill-Roe, Susan's mother Nancy Jenkins and Nancy's second husband Alan Jenkins. Susan was children's nurse to Plath's two children with Ted Hughes, Frieda and Nicholas, from the autumn of 1962 in Devon, her family living not far from Plath's home in North Tawton. Provenance: Susan O Neill-Roe. This copy is one of just three copies of the signed Knopf first edition known to exist (as it was published in May 1962, two years later than the UK Heinemann edition) and was almost certainly given to Susan, Nancy and Alan in November 1962, a month before Sylvia Plath moved to Fitzroy Road in Primrose Hill and just three months before Plath's death. Susan was engaged to look after Plath's children from late October to mid-December 1962, while Plath was engaged in writing many of the poems that would go on to make her name in her final few months. Sylvia Plath dedicates her Ariel poem 'Cut' to Susan: 'For Susan O'Neill Roe'. In a letter written on 15th February 1963, just four days after Plath's death, Susan wrote to her mother and Alan: I just can't believe that Sylvia's killed herself it doesn't seem real. I went round there yesterday morning Nick was asleep so I didn't see him, Frieda seemed to be cheerful and was friendly but poor Ted was very dazed and hardly knew what had hit him ' Offsetting to the front-free endpaper; some light spotting to the preliminaries, other pages unmarked. Green cloth boards clean and fresh, light rubbing to the bottom edge. The jacket is price-clipped, almost certainly by Sylvia Plath as the book was a gift from her and the book previously would have been her copy. Chipping to the spine foot and tip, closed edge tear to the top edge of the front panel, no marks to the verso. For customers outside the United Kingdom, please enquire first for a shipping quote. Thank you. Inscribed by Author(s).