Between the Covers

Hardcover. First editions. Quartos. Two volumes. 84pp. and 88pp. Black and white illustrations. The 1948 volume is very good with a split joint, short tears and age-toning; the 1949 volume is near fine with fading on the spine, faint spotting on the pastedowns and rubbed corners. The sophomore and junior yearbooks from Sylvia Plath's time at Bradford Senior High School, later renamed Wellesley High School. Plath is pictured in the Bradford Newspaper staff photo in both books, she wrote for the paper all four years of high school. In the 1948 yearbook she is also seen in the group photo of the class of 1950. She is additionally pictured with her homeroom class in 1949. Plath was an excellent student who earned a scholarship to Smith College where she began her career as a poet and writer.

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