[Sylvia Plath] | The Bell Jar, 1963, first edition, dust-jacket, with Trevor Thomas, Plath: Last Encounters

[Sylvia Plath]

The Bell Jar. London: Heinemann, 1963

FIRST EDITION, 8vo (184 x 124mm.), 258pp., contemporary ownership inscriptions to front free endpaper, publisher's dark brown cloth, spine lettered in gilt, Heinemann windmill logo stamped in blind to lower cover, original dust-jacket, spine ends slightly bumped, dust-jacket slightly frayed and browned at extremities

with:

Professor Trevor Thomas. Sylvia Plath: Last Encounters. Bedford: published privately, 1989. First and only UK printing, number 139 of an unknown limitation, signed by author on title-page, 4to (299 x 209mm.), 38pp. with type-written text on rectos only, black comb binding with red paper wrappers, drawing design by Thomas on upper cover, wrappers slightly faded and creased with small marginal inkstain

The first edition of Plath's only novel (published under the pseudonym Victoria Lucas), complete with an original dust-jacket (un-price clipped and unrestored). This lot also includes a copy of Last Encounters, a suppressed account of Plath's final weeks by Professor Trevor Thomas, who lived at 23 Fitzroy Road in north west London, and who was the last person to see Plath alive.