ARIEL

First edition, first printing. Publisher's original red cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and tight, the cloth and gilt bright and fresh. The contents are clean throughout and without inscriptions or stamps. Complete with the better than very good lightly rubbed dustwrapper that has a tiny closed tear at the bottom of the front panel an some toning to the spine and rear panel. Not price-clipped (12s 6d net to the lower front flap).

All of the poems in collected in 'Ariel' were written between the publication of Plath's debut volume, 'The Colossus and Other Poems' (1960), and her death in 1963. Edited by the poet's husband Ted Hughes, and dedicated to their children Frieda and Nicholas, he poems, often blending everyday domesticity with dark inner emotional and psychological landscapes, are considered by many to be her finest work.