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[ELM PRESS] -- [PLATH, Sylvia (1932-1963)]. About Sylvia. Poems. Enid Mark, illustrator. Wallingford, PA: The ELM Press, 1996.


Folio. Half-title, title-page printed in maroon and black, 10 lithographic plates (2 of which are in color) by Enid Mark, tissue guards. Original stiff black Tiziano paper wrappers, title stamped in silver on upper wrapper, bound by Sarah Creighton; original black cloth folding case, upper cover inset with rectangular window with embedded pane of cracked glass.

LIMITED EDITION, number 25 of 50 numbered copies of a total edition of 60 copies, SIGNED BY ENID MARK. Created for the tenth anniversary of The ELM Press, About Sylvia contains 10 poems about Plath, most of which were written by people who knew her, including Diane Ackerman, John Berryman, Peter Davison, Luciana Frezza, Rachel Hadas, Judith Herzberg, Ted Hughes, Robert Lowell, Anne Sexton, and Richard Wilbur. Fellow Smith College graduate and close friend of Plath, Enid Mark contributed the lithographs for this edition depicting shattered glass. Mark was introduced to the book arts, ultimately founding The ELM Press, as a result of donating letters Plath had sent her to their alma matter's Mortimer Rare Book Room. With the Publisher's prospectus laid in.


Property from the Collection of Robert S. Brown, Cincinnati, Ohio

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