Books

Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1960. First edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Cloth backed boards in dustwrapper. 8vo. 67 pp. First edition of the poet's first book (First Printing stated). With glowing front cover blurb by fellow poet Robert Lowell. A handsome very good copy in bright and unfaded dustwrapper. This copy has been INSCRIBED by the poet on the first title page and dated in 1962. The author seldom signed or inscribed her early books.

Anne Sexton's debut poetry collection, reflecting on her struggles with mental illness and her stay in a psychiatric hospital. This book is considered a significant work of confessional poetry.