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First edition. Publisher's green cloth in original white printed dustwrapper. Ownership inscription of Roy Fuller to front free endpaper. A bright, fine copy, in a very good dustwrapper indeed, the spine a little toned as usual, but crisp. Plath's first collection of poetry, the only one published in her lifetime. In a letter to her mother of March 1960 Plath reports meeting Roy Fuller, Elizabeth Jennings and Christine Brooke-Rose at a London Magazine party, noting "I must get them all in my diary". The following year Fuller wrote a positive review of The Colossus for The London Magazine, saying "The language of this poetry is unusual but not eccentric, with a great gift for the right epithet, the metaphoric noun". Tabor A2.