New York: Harper & Row, 1971.
Price: $45,000.00
Unbound. Uncorrected and unbound 24” long galley proofs for the first American edition, printing two pages per leaf on the rectos only. Folded as issued. Eleven pencil corrections (misspellings and spacing mistakes) in an unknown editorial hand, slight wrinkle at the corner of one leaf, a fine example. Informed sources suggest that publishers seldom printed more than four to six copies of these types of galleys: mostly for the use of the editor, copy editor, printer, and the author (although obviously not in this case, as Plath had committed suicide in 1963, shortly after the pseudonymous publication of the book in England). A copy of a very rare issue of an exceptionally important novel, which this American edition helped vault into fame. We've never seen another copy of this galley proof.
Item #581676
