The Collected Library: Summer Reading

8vo. Illustrated with drawings by Plath. Original purple cloth with top edge stained violet; dust jacket.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. The Bell Jar was first published on 14 January 1963 by Heinemann under the pseudonym "Victoria Lucas." Plath died less than a month later and the book would not see American publication until 1971, for the first time under her own name.