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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath. First American Edition.

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The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath

First American edition, first printing of Plath’s only novel, a haunting semi-autobiographical account of Esther Greenwood’s struggle with identity, ambition, mental illness, and the constricted expectations placed upon young women in mid-century America. First published in London under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas in 1963, The Bell Jar has become a defining work of twentieth-century literature and a landmark of modern feminist writing.

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1971. Octavo, 296 pages. Publisher’s maroon cloth, spine lettered in silver, in the illustrated dust jacket designed by Amy Isbey Duevell. Stated “First U.S. Edition” on the copyright page; first printing, with no number line on page 296. The first-issue dust jacket is price-clipped but retains the correct “0471” code at the foot of the front flap. A very good copy in a very good dust jacket. Binding remains tight and sturdy, trace of a lean to spine, minimal wear to boards. Owner's inscription to flyleaf, personal bookplate to front pastedown, else internally clean and fine. Jacket shows light shelfwear, protected in archival mylar.

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