Sylvia Plath various items for sale

Sylvia Plath various items for sale

The London bookseller Peter Ellis is offering for sale a host of various Plath-related items. The current price, via ABEbooks.com, is just over $300 US. This price is likely subject to change based on currently foreign exchange rates.

The items for sale are:

The Harvard Advocate, vol. CI, no. 1. Cambridge, Massachusetts, May 1967. Wrappers. Several early poems by Plath.

New Society, no. 302. London, 11 July 1968. Wrappers. Includes David Holbrook on Plath.
The New Yorker, vo. XLVI, no. 40. New York, November 21 1970. Wrappers. ''Gigolo'', a poem by Plath.

The New Yorker, XLVII, no. 3. New York, March 6 1971. Wrappers. Six poems by Plath.

San Francisco Book Review, no. 22. June, 1972. A4 format, wrappers. 38 pages. Includes an essay on Plath by Emily Leider.

The Listener, vol. 95. no. 2454. London, 22 April 1976. Wrappers. Includes an interview with Plath's mother.

The New Review, vol. 3, no. 26. London, May 1976. Wrappers. Memoir of Plath by Elizabeth Sigmund.

New Statesman, vol. 98, no. 2530. London, 14 September, 1979. Wrappers. Helen McNeil on Plath.

Times Literary Supplement, no. 4115. London, 12 February 1982. Wrappers. Alan Brownjohn on Plath's Collected Poems.

Island Magazine, no. 11. Tasmania, June 1982. Wrappers. Adam Philips on Plath.
''Private View'', no. 4. School of Art, CCAT, Cambridge. Spring, 1985. Large format. Wrappers.
Includes one of Plath's letters home, illustrated by James Boyd-Brent.

Photocopy of ''The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky's Novels'', submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of Special Honors in English, Smith College, 1955. 69 A4 sheets, preceded by three of preliminary matter.

Photocopy from Smith Review, Fall 1952, of Sunday at the Mintons', a story by Plath. Also a photocopy of the story as it appeared in Mademoiselle magazine.

Photocopy from Smith Review, Fall 1954, of ''In the Mountains'', a story by Plath.

Photocopy from Smith Review, Spring 1955, of ''Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowballs'', a story by Plath.

Also, a number, probably 40 or so, of photocopies of pieces on or by Plath, as well as bits of ephemera, such as a flier for Rose Leiman Goldemberg's Hampstead production of a play based on Plath's Letters Home (1975) and starring June Brown (Dot Cotton!).

The condition is listed, "Generally at least very good." I should note that the "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowballs" may actually be "Superman and Paula Brown's New Snowsuit".

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