Sylvia Plath

First issue of Plath's rare first separate publication, a poem that would appear again later that same year in The Colossus.

• Sylvia Plath (American).
• Edinburgh: The Tragara Press, 1950.
• A single leaf of deckle-edged paper folded once to make four pages including cover.
• Bound in original letterpress self-wrappers.

One of approximately 60 copies, this important debut—a poetic portrait of the Boston waterfront—was published by Alan Anderson's Tragara Press. It exists in two issues: a later one in marbled wrappers (most of which were retained by the Plath family and are now somewhat more common), and this earlier one originally printed as a Christmas greeting for Plath to send to friends and family.