The Colossus

by Sylvia Plath

$6,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition

London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1960. 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

• Printing: first

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