ARIEL. [A special Poetry Firsts edition.**]

UK,slim,small 8vo,no dw/dj as issued,1st edn,5th imp,thus. [Complete number line 6 8 10 9 7 5 .] FINE. No owner inscrptn and no price removal from cover.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,matt,wrap-around 3-colour (b/w+green) pictorial artwork by Sarah Young,illustrated paper-covered boards,with capitalised,black-lettered title+ author's name in white panels to front board; spine/ backstrip with similarly coloured+lettered title+author as front's and publisher's black-lettered colophon to foot of same,rear panel with poetry verse from CUT,and a black-lettered synopsis. Negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present and immaculate russet+white illustrated endpapers. Top edges with minimal,faint hint of dust-soiling,fore-edges bright,crisp and clean without foxing/spotting; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips,appears unread apart from my own collation. UK,slim,small 8vo HB,no dw/dj as issued,1st edn,5th imp,3-81pp [paginated] includes 40 poems; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication,a contents list/table,a title separator page,and to the rear 6pp blanks. Visually the exterior appearance is exceptional,and even internally,the book is also in an exceptional condition/state of preservation and presentation for a book of its 10+ year-old age. It really is an exceptional,exemplary example for its cleanliness,brightness and lack of detracting faults. This volume is the first of 4 collections to be published by Faber and Faber (then 2010),which then expanded to a collection with 5 other poets, including Wendy Cope, Don Paterson, Philip Larkin, Simon Armitage (see the following sequential alpha-numerical book ID rja1103123 for a UK, slim,small 8vo HB,1st edn; 'KID', from this series) and Alice Oswald. This is the volume on which Plath's reputation as one of the most original,daring and gifted poets of the 20thC rests. 'ARIEL' (1965) contains many of Sylvia Plath's best-known poems,written in an extraordinary burst of creativity just before her death in 1963. The poems in 'ARIEL' include many of her best-known such as 'Lady Lazarus', 'Daddy', 'Edge' and 'Paralytic',and were all written between the publication in 1960 of Plath's first book, 'The Colossus' and her death in 1963. Sylvia Plath published only one volume of verse and a single novel, 'The Bell Jar' [London, Heinemann,1963] under the pseud. Victoria Lucas. Please contact seller,because of the lighter weight of this item,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page! N.B. ALL buyers please note,stocks' actual shipping/P+p costs are adjusted and any difference is refunded,after order's receipt and before the order's despatch,especially if the item(s) are offered either P+p included/FREE. ** N.B. US/Canada customers please be aware: Standard AIRMAIL postage from UK to these destinations can now cost more than the price of the book! If speed is not of the essence, then Economy rate is recommended - at approx. anything from a 1/3rd to 1/2 of the standard US AIR quote/rate - sometimes arriving sooner than the 42 days - but not always. **