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The Bell Jarby PLATH Sylvia (under the name Victoria Lucas)First Edition
Book desription: Heinemann, 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/as new. First printing with facsimile jacket designed by Thomas Simmonds. Description: Octavo (182 x 123 mm.), pp. [4], 258, [1] blank. Original black cloth, spine lettered in gold, publisher's device in blind to lower board. A very good copy. First edition of Plath's only novel, a semi-autobiographical novel which stands as a sympathetic testimony to female isolation and emotional conflict in the 1950s and 60s. The Bell Jar is heavily informed by Plath's experiences as student guest editor of Mademoiselle magazine. On the book's publication, Robert Taubman wrote in The Statesman that The Bell Jar was "the first feminist novel in the Salinger mood." Plath killed herself a month after publication. It was issued first under Plath's name in Britain in 1967. Callil & T—ib’n The Modern Library, p. 140.
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