26 October 2009

Mademoiselle August 1953 on eBay

Sylvia Plath was guest managing editor the August 1953 issue of Mademoiselle. Currently on eBay, someone is auctioning this issue. The auction ends tomorrow, October 27 (Plath's birthday no less)!

P.S. - it should be noted that I am not the seller and that I do not personally know the seller.

8 comments:

Catty said...

Holy crap. How much is it going for? Stupid work firewalls won't let me see it!

Peter K Steinberg said...

Hi Catty, right now it's at $36.01. The seller does not indicate at all that Plath was involved with the issue.

Peter K Steinberg said...

Sorry, it's at $41.00 now.

Al said...

Oh wow. I'd love to own that copy of the 1953 issue, but I have no money allocated towards buying Plath-related (in this case, strongly related) items at the moment (if ever).

Catty said...

Yeah, I think I'm going to wait until the last minute on this one, just to be safe.
Do any of the Plath collections have a copy of it?

Peter K Steinberg said...

Catty - Yes, Smith College has Plath's copy of the August 1953 issue and Indiana has her papers from the internship including correspondence, schedules, etc. IU also has her 1953 calendar which I think has annotations from June about appointments - but I can't remember. They also have correspondence from that period from people like Richard Norton and others to SP. A real gold mine.

Anonymous said...

what was the final bid I wonder. anyone knows?

Anonymous said...

Yes, it went for $71.01.

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