Winter Trees - Hardcover

Plath, Sylvia

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571097391 ISBN 13: 9780571097395

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 1971

Synopsis

Plath, Sylvia. Winter Trees. First edition. London, Faber and Faber, 1971. 14,5 cm x 22 cm. 55 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss - american - irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his initials to front free endpaper. Cotnains among others the following poems: Winter Trees; Child; Brasilia; Gigolo; Childless Woman; Purdah; The Courage of Shutting-Up; The Other; Stopped Dead; The Rabbit Catcher; Mystic; By Candlelight; Lyonnesse; Thalidomide; For a Fatherless Son; Lesbos; The Swarm; Mary's Song etc.

About this title

Book Description:

First published posthumously in 1971, Winter Trees is now reissued, along with Crossing the Water, with a Faber typographical cover.

About the Author:

Sylvia Plath (1932-63) was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and studied at Smith College. In 1955 she went to Cambridge University on a Fulbright scholarship, where she met and later married Ted Hughes. She published one collection of poems in her lifetime, The Colossus (1960), and a novel, The Bell Jar (1963). Her Collected Poems, which contains her poetry written from 1956 until her death, was published in 1981 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.

About this edition

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 1971
• ISBN 10: 0571097391
• ISBN 13: 9780571097395
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 56