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HarperCollins Publishers, 1977. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NY: Alfred A Knopf, 2007. 1st printing; dj w/unclipped price; 261 clean, unmarked pages. 1st. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8 Vo.

London: Faver and Faber, 1976. First edition. Softcover. 70 pages. A paperback original. A play conceived and adapted from Plath's writings by Kyle. A tight very near fine copy in wrappers. A very fresh seemingly unread copy.

New York: Perennial Library, Harper & Row, 1977. Softcover. Fine. First American edition. 12mo. Pictorial wrappers. 92pp. Page toning else fine. Conceived and adapted from her writing by Barry Kyle. [Tabor I19].

Couverture rigide. Bon/1976. in-8. London, 1976, in-8, 70pp, broché, Très bel exemplaire!

Perth, Australia: The Western Australian Theatre Company, 1975. 220 x 143 mm. Very Good. Belonging to Ted Hughes' and Sylvia Plath's daughter, Frieda Hughes, inherited from her father: A souvenir programme of The Western Australian Theatre Company in Barry Kyle's Sylvia Plath: a dramatic portrait. Directed by David Addenbrooke. The Upstairs Theatre (Above Hayman Theatre) September-October 1975. Very good in lightly rubbed and creased black and white card wrappers. Illustrated with photograph of Sylvia Plath. Provenance: from the sale by Frieda Hughes, daughter of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes of 'my personal family items' at Bonhams, London (21 March, 2018) which she described in the catalogue as 'redolent of my parents' joint history... the books and the pamphlets and the poems signed by my mother and father, represented important aspects of their literary lives and were evidence of their powerful partnership.' Most of these items contain the Bonhams sale bookmark and can be accompanied by a… Read More

Unbound. Fine. Portrait hand painted by Plath of her high school friend and classmate Arden Tapley, executed in pastels. Measuring 19" x 25". Framed and glazed. One intentional crease across the lower edge (probably so the image could be displayed without showing the subject's amateurishly executed hands) and a small red stamp lower in the left corner that reads "Estate of Sylvia Plath", overall fine. Matted and framed to 23.25" x 30". Undated, but probably from 1950, the year that Plath and Arden Tapley graduated together from Wellesley High School. Tapley's daughter recalled that her mother often spoke of her friendship with Sylvia, and that both were rather "shy, sensitive girls who naturally gravitated toward each other." She said that when she first saw this image she immediately recognized it as her mother, so Plath did capture an essence of her young friend, although admittedly her mastery of the craft of portraiture was limited. We have never seen such an artwork by Plath offered on the… Read More

(Wellesley, Mass): n.p., 1949. Near fine.. An original, bold portrait painted by a 16-year-old Sylvia Plath. Plath made visual art throughout her life in a wide variety of mediums: from collage and oils to watercolor and pastels. Before she settled firmly on poetry in college, she seriously considered majoring in art. This early piece, painted while she was in high school (and, given the inscription on the verso, likely submitted to an art contest or competition), is executed in colorful gouache in a decidedly modern, almost cubist style, and features an unnamed young woman resting her chin in her hand. The approach to this piece speaks to her early experimentation with the kind of art that would inspire her writing as an adult. Plath would later write to her mother, "I feel I'm developing a kind of primitive style of my own which I am very fond of" (August 28th, 1956). In 1958, she wrote that her "deepest source of inspiration" was "the art of primitives like Henri Rousseau, Gauguin and Paul Klee… Read More