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Privately Printed [The Tragara Press], 1966.
First edition. One of approximately ten copies. Single leaf printed on both sides. 128 x 203mm. A fine copy.
The rarest of Plath's works, printed by Alan Anderson at his Tragara Press, "some ten copies only were produced, and given to friends" (letter from Anderson accompanying the copy now at Yale). Not cited in Tabor. The poem first appeared in The New Yorker in 1963 and was later collected in Crossing the Water. In a letter to collector Alan Clodd in 1972, Anderson claims to have printed only "4 or 5 copies... and I have never mentioned its existence to anyone, so it was rather clever of you to have discovered it." Another copy given to friends and Edinburgh bookselling firm, John Updike (now in the British Library) bears the pencilled note "6 copies", and although eight copies are institutionally held, one is on vellum (printers own?) and two are possibly proofs with wider margins. This is the only copy we are aware of in private hands.
Stock ID: 44501
£3,750.00
