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Ariel

by Plath, Sylvia

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Very Good/Very Good
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About This Item

New York: Harper & Row, 1966. First American Edition. Very Good/Very Good. First American edition, first printing. In publisher's black cloth binding stamped in blue. Very Good. Title lettering on spine is rubbed, cloth shelf worn and lightly faded. Pages toned and with several small stains. In a Very Good dust jacket with publisher's price intact, toning to spine and edges, and a short closed tear to the top edge of the front panel which has been mended with tape to the verso.

Synopsis

The poems in Sylvia Plath's Ariel, including many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy' and 'Fever 103 degrees', were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, The Colossus, and her death in 1963.  'If the poems are despairing, vengeful and destructive, they are at the same time tender, open to things, and also unusually clever, sardonic, hard-minded ...They are works of great artistic purity and, despite all the nihilism, great generosity ...the book is a major literary event.' -- A. Alvarez in the Observer

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Bookseller
Burnside Rare Books, ABAA US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
140937456
Title
Ariel
Author
Plath, Sylvia
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First American Edition
Publisher
Harper & Row
Place of Publication
New York
Date Published
1966
Bookseller catalogs
Poetry;

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About the Seller

Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

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About Burnside Rare Books, ABAA

Burnside Rare Books specializes in literary first editions and works of cultural and historic significance. We are located in Portland, Oregon and welcome visitors by appointment.

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Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Edges
The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.

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