To Bedlam and Part Way Back

The author's first book. Very good. Dust jacket has a 3" split on along spine and slight edge wear. Inscribed and signed by Sexton on the half title page Scarce

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, soiled, and has large . tear to front jacket panel with yellowed tape repair.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Halfbound black cloth with gray paper-covered boards. Jacket art by Ellen Raskin. Author photo on rear jacket panel. Sextons first book, a collection of poems described… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); blue-gray paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [x],67,[3]pp. Pictorial bookplate of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on front pastedown, crown gently nudged, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly edgeworn… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third printing. Very good with a couple dampstains and paper remnant adhered from the very good dustwrapper with corresponding dampstains, rubbing and with a few tiny nicks to the edges. The author's first book, a collection of poetry Inscribed: "For Marian Seldes with love Anne Sexton." Seldes was a… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Second edition. 67 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Black cloth and boards. Fine in very good clipped dust jacket by Ellen Raskin. Second edition. 67 pp. 1 vols. 8vo.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Cloth backed boards in dustwrapper. 8vo. 67 pp. First edition of the poet's first book (First Printing stated). With glowing front cover blurb by fellow poet Robert Lowell. A handsome very good copy in bright and unfaded dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1960. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 8x5x0. Hardcover. Stated Fourth Printing. Light shelf wear to blue cloth boards. Dust jacket has moderate wear to edges with small closed tear along top rear flap. Dust jacket in protective mylar wraps. Binding square and tight. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books… Read more about this item

To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton. 1960 Houghton Mifflin, ninth printing, 67 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sexton was a poet who's most well-known poems dealt with mental illness, death, and relationships with her family. She died by suicide at the age of 45. To Bedlam was her first book. According to the New York Times in reviewing a… Read more about this item

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1960.. First edition.. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.. Near fine (just one slight corner bump) in a near fine jacket (light dust-soiling).. 8vo,.

UsedVeryGood. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Mild tanning, otrherwise pristine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First. hardcover. fine/very good(+). d.w. Boston, 1960. First Edition. Her first book, with a dust jacket blurb by Robert Lowell.<br/><br/> Fine, in a near fine dust wrapper with light edge-wear. Presentation copy.<br/><br/>

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated First Printing. From the library of fellow poet and academic William Matchett, with his bookplate to the ffep, and check marks in places throughout the text. Overall a nice Near Fine copy, tight binding, clean interior; dust jacket (with the $3.00 price) has a touch of light wear… Read more about this item

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Second printing. Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo, 67 pp. Heel of spine lightly bumped, page edges sunned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled, edgeworn, with several small chips and tears.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1960. First edition, first printing, of the author's first book of poems, which established her, alongside fellow Bostonians Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath, as one of the pioneers of confessional poetry. Octavo. Original black quarter cloth, spine lettered in silver, blue boards, black endpapers, top edge purple. With dust jacket. Hint of rubbing to… Read more about this item

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. First edition, first printing. in lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. Ownership ink to flyleaf and verso of half title. Otherwise unmarked. B21 Please email for photos.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff illus. wraps. 9th ptg. 67 pp. Mild handling wear with some thumbing marks to front cover. Firm binding, unmarked interior..

Houghton Mifflin Company. DJ in archival cover tiny chips book plate.First edition of the author's first book, original black cloth boards in original publisher's dust jacket. 67 pages $3.00 on the inside front flap. Stated first printing. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1960.

Houghton Mifflin, 0000-00-00. paperback. Used: Good.

Houghton Mifflin Company. Used - Good. Good condition. 5th printing.(poetry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Houghton Mifflin Company. Covers very worn, stained, browning at front hinge, owner name cut out, pen marks on one page, else pages very good. . Good. Soft cover. 1960.