LETTERS HOME BY SYLVIA PLATH Correspondence 1950-1963

New York: Harper & Row. Very Good in Good dust jacket. 1975. Stated First Edition. 1. Hard Cover. 0060133724 . Publisher's full gray cloth, gilt lettering and borders on spine. Illustrated endpapers. Includes Editor's Introduction and Acknowledgments; List of Poems, and Bibliographical References. Illustrated with numerous B&W photographs. Interior clean and bright. FINE/NEAR FINE. This selection from over 1000 pieces of correspondence selected and edited by Sylvia Plath's mother, forms a kind of autobiography of at least one aspect of Sylvia Plath's very complex life, a fascinating relationship of great intricacy between mother and daughter. Rose Leiman Goldemberg's play, Letters Home, was based on this book. When she died at thirty, Sylvia Plath left behind an enormous body of work. Besides the poetry and fiction, there are many notebooks, journals, and countless letters. Nearly a thousand letters were written to her mother, who has assembled a selection of them (and other letters to family and friends) together with notes and commentary, to make this book. The result of Mrs. Plath's labors is a document that can only be called extraordinary. [Tabor A18a.1] Published December 3, 1975 (originally scheduled for publication in September of 1975, this first issue was delayed because of a dispute over the literary rights to the material). Clipped dust jackets shows wear, chipping and fading. Spine is bumped. . B&W Photographs. Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall. 502 pp .