(New York: Harper and Row, 1975).

FIRST EDITION. “When she died at thirty, Sylvia Plath left behind an enormous body of work-besides the poetry and fiction, there are many notebooks, journals, and countless letters. Nearly a thousand letters were written to her mother, who has assembled a selection of them (and other letters to the family and friends), together with notes and commentary, to make this book. The result of Mrs. Plath’s labors is a document that can only be called extraordinary.”-Publisher
“Finally now, young women writers can cease to identify with the apparent self-destroyer in Sylvia Plath and begin to understand the forces she had to reckon with. What comes across in the letters is a survivor, who knew that to be a writer means discipline, indefatigable commitment, and passion for hard work. By no means all is told here, but the features emerge of a real, not a mythic, woman artist.”-Adrienne Rich. Item #15218

First Edition. Replete with photographs throughout. 8vo, publisher's original gray cloth over boards in the dust jacket. 502 pp. A fine copy.