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Limited Editions



Bibliographic information:
Title: A Winter Ship
Publisher: Edinburgh: The Tragara Press
Year: 1960

Limited to about 50 copies

Contents:
The single poem, "A Winter Ship".


Bibliographic information:
Title: Uncollected Poems
Publisher: London: Turret Books
Year: 1965

Limited to 150 copies

Contents:
12 poems. Blackberrying, Wuthering Heights, A life, Crossing the water, Private ground, An appearance, Finisterre, Insomniac, I am vertical, Candles, and Parliament Hill fields. Includes a facsimile of "Half-Moon", a variant version of the poem "Thalidomide". Plath's drawing of Wuthering Heights appears on the cover.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Mirror
Publisher: Edinburgh: Tragara Press
Year: 1966

Privately printed, about 10 copies

Contents:
1 poem. Printed on both sides. Title and date on recto; poem Mirror on verso.

Image provided courtesty of Revere Books.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Three Women: A Monologue
for Three Voices

Publisher: London: Turret Books
Year: 1968

Limited to 180 copies

Contents:
Introduction by Douglas Cleverdon and Plath's verse play.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Three Women
Publisher: ?
Year: 197?

Contents:
Pirated edition of Plath's verse play.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Wreath for a Bridal
Publisher: Frensham, Farnham, Surrey: Sceptre Press
Year: 1970

Limited to 100 copies

Contents:
The single poem, "Wreath for a Bridal".


Bibliographic information:
Title: The Surgeon at 2 a.m. & Other Poems
Publisher: Portland, Ore.: [s.n.]
Year: 1971

Limited to 100 copies

Contents:
7 poems. Amnesiac, Stopped Dead, On Deck, Eavesdropper, Face Lift, A Life, The Surgeon at 2 a.m., and a Foreword by Matthew Kangas.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Crystal Gazer and Other Poems
Publisher: London: Rainbow Press
Year: 1971

Limited to 400 copies

Contents:
23 poems. Ballade Banale, Alicante Lullaby, Leaving Early, Notes on Zarathustra's Prologue, Mad Girl's Love Song, On the Plethora of Dryads, The Dream of the Hearse-Driver (The Dream), Go Get the Goodly Squab, The Beggars, Circus in Three Rings, The Goring, Admonitions, Recantation, Crystal Gazer, Stopped Dead, Mirror, Face Lift, Zoo Keeper's Wife, Heavy Woman, Last Words, Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers, Lament, and Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, among Lilies: A Sestina for the Douanier.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Fiesta Melons
Publisher: Exeter [Eng.]: Rougemont Press
Year: 1971

Limited to 150 copies

Contents:
10 poems, 14 drawings. Green Rock, Winthrop Bay, Two Lovers and a Beachcomber by the Real Sea, Battle-Scene from the Comic Opera Fantasy "The Seafarer", Complaint of the Crazed Queen (The Queen's Complaint), Dream of the Hearse-Driver (The Dream) Southern Sunrise, Fiesta Melons, The Surgeon at 2 a.m., November Graveyard, and Yadwigha, on a Red Couch, among Lilies: A Sestina for the Douanier, and an introduction by Ted Hughes.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Among the Narcissi
Publisher: [Ashington, Eng.: MidNAG]
Year: 1971

Limited to 300 copies

Contents:
Broadside, illustrated, and the poem.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Lyonnesse
Publisher: London: Rainbow Press
Year: 1971

Limited to 400 copies

Contents:
21 poems and two facsimiles. A Winter's Tale, Mayflower, Epitaph for Fire and Flower, Old Ladies' Home, Wreath for a Bridal, Metamorphoses of the Moon, Owl, Child, Electra on Azalea Path, In Midas' Country, Tinker Jack and the Tidy Wives, Two Campers in Cloud Country, The Rabbit Catcher, The Detective, On the Difficulty of Conjuring up a Dryad, The Snowman on the Moor, Widow, The Other Two, Gigolo, Brasilia, and Lyonnesse.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Million Dollar Month
Publisher: Frensham, Farnham, Surrey: Sceptre Press
Year: 1971

Limited to 150 copies

Contents:
The single poem, "Million Dollar Month".


Bibliographic information:
Title: Child: A Poem
Publisher: Exeter, [Eng.]: Rougemont Press
Year: 1971

Limited to 325 copies

Contents:
The single poem, "Child". Reproduces Plath's manuscript copy of the poem with revisions as well as a typescript.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Pursuit
Publisher: London: Rainbow Press
Year: 1973

Limited to 100 copies

Contents:
14 poems with etchings and drawings by Leonard Baskin. Dark Wood, Dark Water, Resolve, Temper of Time, The Shrike, Faun, The Lady and the Earthenware Head, Pursuit, Doomsday, Words Heard, by Accident, Over the Phone, Stings [2], Spider, The Fearful, The Rivel [2], A Secret, and Burning the Letters.


Bibliographic information:
Title: To Eva Descending the Stair
Publisher: London: Steam Press
Year: 1974

Limited to 50 copies

Contents:
Broadside, illustrated by Ralph Steadman. This copy signed/inscribed by Ted Hughes to Keith Sagar. It reads, "To Keith / after his colossallll / curry / from / Ted".

Image provided courtesy of L. E.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Trois Poemes Inedits
Publisher: Paris: Edition Dufour
Year: 1975

Limited to 100 copies

Contents:
Prints three untitled, uncollected poems by Plath. The first lines of which are:
1. "A time of clear white understanding: / While the willow tree twirls yellow leaves . . ."
2. "The sweet sickish female odor / Behind the dim blinds of a scented boudoir -- . . ."
3. "Something there was about the time / And the lighted Boston streets . . ."


Bibliographic information:
Title: Ariel and Morning Song
Publisher: Turret Books
Year: 1977(?)

Unknown number printed

Contents:
Broadside, illustrated, printing the poems "Ariel" and "Morning Song".


Bibliographic information:
Title: Two Poems
Publisher: Knotting, Bedfordshire: Sceptre Press
Year: 1980

Limited to 300 copies

Contents:
Two poems, "Firesong" and "Incommunicado".


Bibliographic information:
Title: Two Uncollected Poems
Publisher: London: Anvil
Year: 1980

Limited to 450 copies

Contents:
Two previously uncollected poems, "Dialogue Between Ghost and Priest" (1956) and "Child's Park Stones" (1958).


Bibliographic information:
Title: A Day in June: An Uncollected Short Story
Publisher: Ely [Cambridgeshire]: Embers Handpress
Year: 1981

Limited to 160 copies

Contents:
The single story "A Day in June" (1949).


Bibliographic information:
Title: Dialogue Over a Ouija Board
Publisher: Cambridge, England: Rainbow Press
Year: 1981

Limited to 140 copies

Contents:
The single poem, "Dialogue Over a Ouija Board" and a drawing by Leonard Baskin.


Bibliographic information:
Title: The Green Rock
Publisher: Ely [Cambridgeshire]: Embers Handpress
Year: 1982

Limited to 160 copies

Contents:
The single story "The Green Rock" (1949).


Bibliographic information:
Title: Stings: Original Drafts of the Poem in Facsimile, Reproduced from the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith College
Publisher: Northampton, Mass.: Smith College Library Rare Book Room
Year: 1982

Limited to 5,000 copies

Contents:
Facsimiles drafts of Plath's 1962 poem "Stings" and an essay by Susan R. van Dyne.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Above the Oxbow
Publisher: Northampton [Mass.]:
Catawba Press
Year: 1985

Limited to 325 copies

Contents:
Introduction, Above the Oxbow (poem); Above the Oxbow (story); Child's Park Stones; Journal, June 11, 1958; and Fable of the Rhododendron Stealers. Illustrations: Portrait of Sylvia Plath; Prospect House on Skinner Mountain; The rose garden, Child's Park; Rhododendron. Wood engravings by Barry Moser.


Bibliographic information:
Title: The Magic Mirror: A Study of the Double in Two of Dostoevsky's Novels
Publisher: Rhiwargor, Llanwddyn, Powys [Wales]: Embers Handpress
Year: 1989

Limited to 226 copies

Contents:
Plath's senior thesis (1955).


Bibliographic information:
Title: Child
Publisher: London: Poems on the Underground.
Year: 1992

Unknown number printed

Contents:
Broadside of Plath's poem "Child" for display on London Underground trains.


Bibliographic information:
Title: Pigeon Post
Publisher: London: Turret Bookshop
Year: 1993

Unknown number printed

Contents:
Broadside of a single poem.



Bibliographic information:
Title: Living in Print: The Legacy of Sylvia Plath: An Exhibition of Selections from the James R. and Mary M. Patton Collection, Rare Book Collection, Wilson Library, October 1-December 31, 1997
Publisher: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 1997

Contents:
Catalog of selected items from the Patton collection; includes some scans of book covers.



Bibliographic information:
Title: "No Other Appetite": Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, and the Blood Jet of Poetry
Publisher: New York: Grolier Club
Year: 2005

Contents:
An exhibition held at the Grolier Club from 14 September through 19 November 2005, drawn largely from the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith College and the Ted Hughes Papers and Library at Emory University.