Ariel by Sylvia Plath - 1965

London: Faber and Faber, 1965. First edition. Cloth. Fine/Fine. 9" by 5.5". None. A very fine, first edition of Sylvia Plath's poetry collection. Posthumously published, two years after Plath's early death. With the original unclipped dustwrapper. Despite its publication being two years after Plath's suicide, this work contains poems composed in the final months of her life. She felt these poems to be the best she ever wrote. The DNB states that she announced to her mother 'they will make my name'. 'Ariel' contains forty poems, which was taken from a manuscript by Plath. Edited by her husband Ted Hughes, who altered Plath's chosen selection and arrangement. He dropped twelve poems and added twelve composed a few months later and altered the poems' ordering. Hughes was assisted by his sister Olwyn, Plath's literary executor for this work. A superb copy of this work, which is a significant post-war poetry collection. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, excellent with minor shelfwear. Dustwrapper is in an excellent condition also. A few small closed tears to the head and tail of rear wrap. The spine is lightly sunned, as is the extremities of the rear wrap. A few light spots internally to wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright. Just a few light spots to endpapers. Fine