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THE COLOSSUS
by Plath, Sylvia
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Near fine in a very good jacket.
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
London: Heinemann, 1960. First printing. Near fine in a very good jacket.. First edition of Plath's first book-length work, and the only poetry collection published within her lifetime. 8.25'' x 5.25''. Original publisher's full green cloth. In original unclipped (15s) printed jacket. 88 pages. Jacket with three old internal repairs to verso with some light discoloration to recto, some moderate toning at the spine, and two very short tears. Book lightly bumped at a couple corners. Neat contemporary owner's inscription (the bookseller Nial Devitt) to front pastedown. Else clean and sound.
Synopsis
Sylvia Plath was born in 1932 in Massachusetts. She began publishing poems and stories as a teenager and by the time she entered Smith College had won several poetry prizes. The Colossus is a poetry collection that was published in 1971.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Type Punch Matrix
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 51549
- Title
- THE COLOSSUS
- Author
- Plath, Sylvia
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine in a very good jacket.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1960
- Keywords
- Woman Author,Poetry,20th century,1960s
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About the Seller
Type Punch Matrix
Biblio member since 2020
Silver Spring, Maryland
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- 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....
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