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Lot 319
Sale 6331 - The Collected Library: Summer Reading
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Jul 31, 2025
Lots Close
Aug 13, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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$200 -
300
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$260
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Lot Description
PLATH, Sylvia (1932-1963). The Bell Jar. New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
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.
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