Uncollected Poems
Turret Books, 1965.
First edition, first impression, one of 13 copies inscribed by Ted Hughes on the front wrapper verso, "Ted Hughes. Feb. 1966. G of 13 copies"; the total edition comprised 150 copies. Original unprinted white card wrappers, in the printed dustwrapper. Pink double leaf at centre fold on which is printed a facsimile of Plath's manuscript for Half Moon, Plath's illustration of "Wuthering Heights" (pp. 4-5) to dust jacket. A near fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper.
These poems "represent an intermediate stage in Sylvia Plath's development as a poet, and form the connecting link between the poems to be found in The Colossus [and] Ariel" (front flap).
"Insomniac" (pp. 13-14) was awarded the Cheltenham Festival Guinness Poetry Prize in 1961.
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