The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, Sylvia Plath

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The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume 1: 1940-1956, Sylvia Plath. Published by Harper & Brothers, New York, 2017. 8vo up to 9½” tall. 1388 pages. Cream boards over quarter grey, silver spine titles. Contents are clean without markings; a small and light crease to top edge outside corner affecting preliminaries; a minuscule bump to rear board lower edge; unclipped jacket has the lightest of shelf wear. A major literary event: the first volume in the definitive, complete collection of the letters of Sylvia Plath. Most of the letters are previously unseen, including sixteen letters written by Plath to Hughes when they were apart after their honeymoon. This magnificent compendium also includes twenty-seven of Plath¿s own elegant line drawings taken from the letters she sent to her friends and family, as well as twenty-two previously unpublished photographs.