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First edition, first printing, signed by the author on the front free endpaper. Sexton's Pulitzer Prize-winning collection includes the elegy "Sylvia's Death", written just six days after her friend Sylvia Plath's suicide. Octavo. Original pink and grey cloth, spine lettered in black, front cover lettered in blind, top edge black. With dust jacket. Jacket lightly marked and price-clipped, spine and extremities slightly toned, a few small nicks and chips to extremities: a fine copy in very good jacket.

Live or Die is a collection of poetry by American poet Anne Sexton, published in 1966. The poems are highly autobiographical and cover themes including her mental illness and suicide attempts. This collection won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1967.