Search Results: to bedlam and part way back by anne sexton

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1960. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. First Thus. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Stiff illus. wraps. 9th ptg. 67 pp. Mild handling wear with some thumbing marks to front cover. Firm binding, unmarked interior..

Houghton Mifflin Company. Covers very worn, stained, browning at front hinge, owner name cut out, pen marks on one page, else pages very good. . Good. Soft cover. 1960.

Houghton Mifflin, 0000-00-00. paperback. Used: Good.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company, 1960. Paperback. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back by Anne Sexton. 1960 Houghton Mifflin, ninth printing, 67 pages. Pulitzer Prize-winner Sexton was a poet who's most well-known poems dealt with mental illness, death, and relationships with her family. She died by suicide at the age of 45. To Bedlam was her first book. According to the New York Times in reviewing a book of collected poems: "The poems in ''To Bedlam and Part Way Back'' (1960) and ''All My Pretty Ones'' (1962) present a savage, almost clinical documentation of madness, illness and pain, and they do so with the authority of a witness blessed with a strong and passionate voice."
Condition: Good. Some wear, owner name on inside cover
"You, Doctor Martin, walk
from breakfast to madness."

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company. Very Good in Fair dust jacket; Jacket price-clipped, soiled, and has large . tear to front jacket panel with yellowed tape repair.. 1960. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. Halfbound black cloth with gray paper-covered boards. Jacket art by Ellen Raskin. Author photo on rear jacket panel. Sextons first book, a collection of poems described by fellow poet Robert Lowell on the jacket blurb as verse which describes her very personal experiences with an almost Russian abundance and accuracy. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 67 pages .

UsedVeryGood. Text block, wraps and binding are in like new condition, without markings of any kind. Mild tanning, otrherwise pristine. Well packaged and promptly shipped from California. Partnered with Friends of the Library since 2010.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Second printing. Boards. Very Good/Good. 8vo, 67 pp. Heel of spine lightly bumped, page edges sunned. Jacket sunned, lightly soiled, edgeworn, with several small chips and tears.

Houghton Mifflin/Riverside Press, 1960. Fourth Printing. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 8x5x0. Hardcover. Stated Fourth Printing. Light shelf wear to blue cloth boards. Dust jacket has moderate wear to edges with small closed tear along top rear flap. Dust jacket in protective mylar wraps. Binding square and tight. No highlighting, notation, or remainder marks. Thank you for supporting Last Word Books and independent bookstores.

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x0. First edition, first printing. in lightly shelf worn price intact jacket. Ownership ink to flyleaf and verso of half title. Otherwise unmarked. B21 Please email for photos.

Couverture rigide. Bon/1960. in-8. Boston, 1960, in-8, 67pp, broché, Très bel exemplaire! The author's first book!

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Houghton Mifflin, 1960. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Stated First Printing. From the library of fellow poet and academic William Matchett, with his bookplate to the ffep, and check marks in places throughout the text. Overall a nice Near Fine copy, tight binding, clean interior; dust jacket (with the $3.00 price) has a touch of light wear to the top of the spine, else Very Good. Poet's first book.

Houghton Mifflin Company. Used - Good. Good condition. 5th printing.(poetry) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First Edition. First Printing. Octavo (21.75cm); blue-gray paper-covered boards and black cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in silver on spine; red topstain; dustjacket; [x],67,[3]pp. Pictorial bookplate of the American Academy of Arts and Letters on front pastedown, crown gently nudged, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $3.00), lightly edgeworn and a little dust-soiled, with a few small abrasions to rear panel; Very Good+. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first collection of poetry.

Boston:: Houghton Mifflin Company,, 1960.. First edition.. publisher's cloth-backed boards in dust jacket.. Near fine (just one slight corner bump) in a near fine jacket (light dust-soiling).. 8vo,.

UsedGood. The cover has visible markings and wear. The dust jacket is missing. The front text block edge is deckled Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Houghton Mifflin Company. DJ in archival cover tiny chips book plate.First edition of the author's first book, original black cloth boards in original publisher's dust jacket. 67 pages $3.00 on the inside front flap. Stated first printing. . Near Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 1960.

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Third printing. Very good with a couple dampstains and paper remnant adhered from the very good dustwrapper with corresponding dampstains, rubbing and with a few tiny nicks to the edges. The author's first book, a collection of poetry Inscribed: "For Marian Seldes with love Anne Sexton." Seldes was a Tony and Obie Award-winning actress who starred in the 1969 off-Broadway production of Anne Sexton's *Mercy Street* at The American Place Theatre in 1969. Sexton who was very involved with all aspects of the play and no actor more so than Seldes who played the lead character of Daisy. A nice association.