A Winter Ship.

PLATH, Sylvia.

$7,500.00

Item Number: 132110

Edinburgh: Tragara Press, 1960.

First edition of Plath’s first separately printed poem, one of only 60 copies. Octavo, original marbled wrappers with printed title label in a ruled border pasted to front cover. In fine condition. One of only perhaps sixty copies produced by Alan Anderson, owner of the Tragara Press, this work constituted the first separate printing of Plath’s work. Plath herself requested the removal of her name from the title, writing in June of 1960, “We thought we’d like the date, place and press in upright letters, as on the other proof, and my name deleted – as I’ll write that on the inside myself, with Christmas greeting too…” Plath requested “four dozen copies” and Anderson remembers, “it is fair to assume about 60 copies were printed.” Tabor A1. Plath was extremely pleased with the result, writing to Anderson on 23 July 1960 “The pamphlets are absolutely beautiful. Ted and I are delighted with them, and especially with the handsome way you make up your covered booklets” (The Letters, Vol.II, edited by Steinberg and Kukil, 2018).