WINTER TREES

First edition, first printing. Original blue cloth with silver titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A very near fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth and lettering crisp and sharp, the contents clean throughout. There is some blanching to the blue pigment on the outer edges of the boards. Complete with the fine, bright dustwrapper, showing just the merest of rubbing to spine tips. Not price-clipped (£1.00 net to the front flap). The volume was the Poetry Book Society's choice for Autumn, 1971 and, loosely laid in is a contemporary flyer for the society, along with an offprint of Dan Jacobson's review of the book in 'The Listener' (7th October, 1971). A nice copy.

The poems collected in 'Winter Trees' were written during the last nine months of Sylvia Plath's life and drawn from the same batch of poems as those included in 'Ariel' (1965). The volume, which is edited by Ted Hughes, also includes the slightly earlier 'Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices'.