Winter trees

New York: Harper & Row, [1972]. [8], 64pp. Original publisher's mauve paper covered boards over grey cloth spine, with the original unclipped illustrated dustwrapper designed by Gloria Adelson. With the decorative endpapers, fore edge untrimmed. All edges bumped, with minor smoke damage to paper boards. Wrapper slightly shelf-worn. From the estate of Olwyn Hughes, recently dispersed, without indication of such; the smoke damage is the result of an errant cigarette dropped by Olwyn down the back of her settee, which caused a serious fire. Early US edition of this posthumous collection of Plath's work, written in the last year of her life, selected by her estranged husband Ted Hughes. Olwyn Hughes (1928-2016) was a translator, agent and literary executor who had worked in Paris for NATO, Martonplay, and King Peter II of Yugoslavia, among others. After the death of her sister-in-law Sylvia Plath, she returned to England to assist her brother, Ted Hughes, raise his young children, though also took over the management of both his career and Plath's literary estate. While she did have some other clients as a literary agent, including Jean Rhys, much of the rest of her life was dedicated to preserving - and defending - both Plath and Hughes. . US edition, third printing: Publishing line 73 74 75 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 . 8vo.