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INSCRIBED BY TED HUGHES 56. PLATH, Sylvia THREE WOMEN A Monologue for Three Voices, with an Introduc- tory Note by Douglas Cleverdon. Turret Books, 1968. Number 156 of 180 numbered copies, privately printed by Oficyna Stanislawa Gliwy. Presentation copy from Ted Hughes to his aunt, Hilda Farrar, inscribed on the front endpaper, “To Hilda with love Ted March 1971”. Publisher’s pictorial cream linen, with gilt vignette and lettering to the upper cover and gilt lettering to the spine, in the orig- inal glassine. Frontispiece woodcut and initials by Stanislaw Gliwa. A near fine copy, with a little spotting to the edge of the boards and a few tears to the glassine. [39054] £1,500 Three Women is the only poem Plath wrote specifically for radio, and was produced by Douglas Cleverdon, who introduces the poem here, for broadcast on the 13th September 1962.
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57. PLATH, Sylvia WINTER TREES Faber, 1971. First edition. Blue cloth lettered in silver in dustwrapper. Inscribed by the book’s edi- tor, Ted Hughes, to his Aunt, Hilda Farrar, “To Hilda love Ted Xmas 1971”. A fine copy in a near fine dustwrapper. [39051] £1,500 The poems for this work were collected and edited by the author’s husband Ted Hughes, who became, with the help of his sister Olwyn, Plath’s literary executor after her death. Hughes con- tributes an introductory note.
PLATH TO TED’S AUNT 55. PLATH, Sylvia THE COLOSSUS AND OTHER POEMS Heinemann, 1961. First edition. Original green cloth in white printed dustwrapper. Author’s presentation copy, inscribed to her husband’s (Ted Hughes) aunt and cousin, “For Hilda + Vicky with lots of love from Sylvia January 1, 1961” A fine copy in a very good dustwrapper, slightly tanned to the spine with a couple of short closed tears. [39040] £30,000 A rare presentation copy of Plath’s first collection of poetry, the only one published in her lifetime. Hilda Farrar and her daughter Vicky were Ted Hughes’s aunt and cousin respectively. Sylvia and Ted had spent Christmas of 1960 in Yorkshire, visiting Hilda and Vicky as well as other members of Hughes’ family. They returned to London on New Year’s Eve, Sylvia apparently sending a copy of her recently published book immediately on her return. Presentation copies of The Colossus are rare, generally being given only to family members and close friends.
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