PLATH, Sylvia.
A Day in June.
A Day in June.
Stock Code 125018
Ely, Embers Handpress, 1981.
one of 160 copies
A rare short story by Sylvia Plath which she wrote in 1952 while she was still an undergraduate student at Smith College, Massachusetts. It tells the story of a female protagonist who attempts to manipulate a young man she has just met, to no avail. It can be read as a damning precursor to her first and only novel, The Bell Jar which would be published eleven years later, just a few weeks before her suicide.Limited edition of 160 copies, this being number 146; 8vo (20 x 14); text hand-set in Monotype, unmarked internally; publisher's textured blue wrappers, handmade in the Auvergne by Richard de Bas, titles to upper panel in blue and grey, colophon printed to rear in black, hand-sewn, near-fine; 12pp.
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