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Sylvia Plath Special Collections Resources: Publications by Plath

Collections related to Sylvia Plath in Smith College Special Collections

Overview

Below you will find a list of publications found in the library catalog as part of the Mortimer Rare Book Collection that are either by Plath, are translations of Plath or are inspired by Plath. These are found outside of the archival collections found on the Collections at Smith page. Please note, this list is not comprehensive.

Works by Plath

Name of Item Call Number
Ariel / by Sylvia Plath. London : Faber and Faber, [1965], 1972. 825 P696ar
Ariel / by Sylvia Plath. London : Faber and Faber, 1965. (2 copies) 825 P696ar 1965
The art of Sylvia Plath : selected poems and essays on her work / by Ted Hughes, A.E. Dyson, Lois Ames, Charles Newman, Anne Sexton, A. Alvarez. 825 P696art 1966
The bell jar / by Victoria Lucas. London ; Melbourne ; Toronto : Heinemann, 1963. 825 P696b 1963
The bell jar / by Victoria Lucas. London : William Heinemann, 1964. 825 P696b 1964
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath. London : Faber and Faber, 1966. 825 P696b 1966
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath. New York ; Evanston ; San Francisco ; London : Harper & Row, [1971]. (3 copies) 825 P696b 1971
The bed book / by Sylvia Plath ; pictures by Emily Arnold McCully. New York : Harper & Row, [1976]. (2 copies) Oversize 825 P696be 1976
The colossus : poems / by Sylvia Plath. London ; Melbourne ; Toronto : Heinemann, 1960. (2 copies) 825 P696col 1960
The colossus / by Sylvia Plath. London : Faber and Faber, 1967. 825 P696col 1967
Crossing the water : transitional poems / Sylvia Plath. New York ; Evanston ; San Francisco ; London : Harper & Row, [1971] (2 copies) 825 P696cr 1971
Crystal gazer : and other poems / by Sylvia Plath. London : Rainbow Press, 1971. Oversize 825 P696cry 1971
A day in June : an uncollected short story / by Sylvia Plath. Ely [England] : Embers Handpress, 1981. 825 P696da
A day in June : an uncollected short story / by Sylvia Plath. Ely [Cambridgeshire] : Embers Handpress, 1981. 825 P696da 1981
The it-doesn't-matter suit / Sylvia Plath ; illustrations by Rotraut Susanne Berner. New York : St. Martin's Press, 1996. 825 P696it 1996
Johnny Panic and the Bible of dreams : short stories, prose, and diary excerpts / Sylvia Plath. New York ; Hagerstown ; San Francisco ; London : Harper & Row, [1979] 825 P696j 1979
The journals of Sylvia Plath / foreword by Ted Hughes ; Ted Hughes, consulting editor ; and Frances McCullough, editor. (3 copies) 825 P696jo 1982
Lyonnesse : poems / by Sylvia Plath. London : Rainbow Press, 1971. Oversize 825 P696ly 1971
The magic mirror : a study of the double in two of Dostoevsky's novels / Sylvia Plath. [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1955. Oversize 825 P696ma 1955
The magic mirror : a study of the double in two of Dostoevsky's novels / Sylvia Plath. 825 P696ma 1989
[Three women : a poem for three voices / Sylvia Plath. New York : [publisher not identified], 1972] 825 P696ms, 1972
Three women : a monologue for three voices / by Sylvia Plath ; with an introductory note by Douglas Cleverdon. London : Turret Books, 1968. (2 copies) 825 P696th 1968
Three women / Sylvia Plath. [United States?] : [publisher not identified], [1975?] 825 P696th 1975
Uncollected poems / by Sylvia Plath. London : Turret Books, 1965. 825 P696un 1965
A winter ship. Edinburgh : Tragara Press, 1960. 825 P696w 1960
Winter trees / by Sylvia Plath. London : Faber and Faber, 1971. 825 P696wi 1971
Winter trees / Sylvia Plath. New York : Harper & Row, [1972] 825 P696wi 1972
Sylvia Plath : poems / selected by Ted Hughes. London : Faber and Faber, 2000. PS3556.L27 A6 2000
The colossus : & other poems / by Sylvia Plath. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1962. PS3566 .L27 C6 1962
Ariel / by Sylvia Plath. New York : Harper & Row, [1971] PS3566.L27 A7 1971
Ariel : the restored edition / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frieda Hughes. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2004] PS3566.L27 A7 2004
Ariel : the restored edition ; a facsimile of Plath's manuscript reinstating her original selection and arrangement / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frieda Hughes. London : Faber and Faber, 2004. PS3566.L27 A7 2004b
Ariel : the restored edition ; a facsimile of Plath's manuscript, reinstating her original selection and arrangement / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frieda Hughes. New York : HarperCollins, 2004. PS3566.L27 A7 2004c
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath ; foreword by Frances McCullough ; biographical note by Lois Ames ; drawings by Sylvia Plath. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, 1996. PS3566.L27 B4 1996
The bell jar / Sylvia Plath. London : Faber and Faber, 2013. Fiftieth anniversary edition. PS3566.L27 B4 2013

 

Translations

Name Call Number Note
Izbor pesni / Silvija Plat ; izbor na pesniti i prenev od Angliski Kristina Zimbakova. (Ибор песни / Cилвиjа Нлат ; избор на песнити и препев од Англиски Кристина Зимбакова.) PS3566.L27 A56 2005 Selected poems, translated into Macedonian
Arbres d’hiver : / Sylvia Plath ; traduit par Françoise Morvan ; précédé de La traversée ; traduit par Valérie Rouzeau ; présentation de Sylvie Doizelet. PS3566.L27 A3 1999 Translations of "Winter trees" and "Crossing the water". English and French on facing pages.
Paʻamon ha-zekhukhit / Silviyah Plat ; me-anglit, Yoav Halevi. PS3566.L27 B4195 1998 The Bell Jar, translated into Hebrew
La campana de cristal / Sylvia Plath ; traducción de Elena Rius. 825 P696b S 1982 The Bell Jar, translated into Spanish
Jonī Panikku to yume no seisho : Shiruvia Purasu tanpenshū / Minami Akira, Oshio Toshiko yaku. PS3566.L27 J616 1979 Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams, translated into Japanese
Poiēmata / Sylvia Plath ; eisagōgē kai metaphrasē Klaitēs Sōteriadou. PS3566.L27 A54 1974 Selected poems, English and Greek translation on facing pages.
Lady Lazarus / Sylvia Plath. [Berlin, Germany] : Design und Grafik Monika Rohrmus, [2018]. Oversize N7433.4.R647 L33 2018 Lady Lazarus, translated into German

 

Fine Press and Artist Books

Name of Item Call Number
Pvrsvit / Sylvia Plath ; with an etching & drawings by Leonard Baskin. [London] : The Rainbow Press, 1973. 825 P696pur 1973
Stings / Sylvia Plath : original drafts of the poem in facsimile reproduced from the Sylvia Plath Collection at Smith College ; with an essay by Susan R. Van Dyne. 825 P696st 1982
Edge : a body in a book / poem by Sylvia Plath. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Queen April Press, University of California, 2002. Oversize PS3566 .L27 E3 2002
Dialogue over a Ouija board : a verse dialogue / Sylvia Plath ; with a drawing by Leonard Baskin. PS3566.L27 D5 1981

 

Other

Name of Item Call Number Note
Writers on themselves / Norman Nicholson ; Rebeeca West ; William Sansom ; Emanuel Litvinoff ; Vernon Scannell ; Thomas Hinde ; John Bowen ; Richard Murphy ; Michael Baldwin ; Julian Mitchell ; Ted Hughes ; David Storey ; Sylvia Plath ; with an introduction by Herbert Read. [London] : [BBC], [1964] 825 P696oc Ocean 1212-w / Sylvia Plath: p. [102]-110.
"These talks were originally broadcast in the BBC Home Service."
Bananas. [London] : [Bananas Pub. Abigail Mozley], 1975. Multiple volumes. Flat PR1098 .B3  Includes first appearances of works by Sylvia Plath: "Unpublished poems" ("I thought that I could not be hurt", "Waking in Winter (unfinished)", and "Burning the letters"), "Among the bumblebees" (short story), "Day of Success" (short story, with portrait of Plath by Patrick Procktor)
Preludes : selected poems from the Kathryn Irene Glascock intercollegiate poetry contest, 1924-1973. South Hadley, Mass. : Department of English, Mount Holyoke College, 1973. PS615 .P7 Features Two lovers and a beachcomber by the real sea / Sylvia Plath
Lorelei ; Full fathom five ; The Hermit at Outermost House / Sylvia Plath in Audience.; Vol. 6, no. 2 (Spring 1959) PS3566.L27 L67 1959 Lorelei," "Full Fathom Five," and "The Hermit at Outermost House" by Sylvia Plath in Audience: A Quarterly of Literature & The Arts

 

Inspired by Plath

Name of Item Call Number Note
Sylvia Plath, a dramatic portrait / conceived and adapted from her writings by Barry Kyle. New York : Harper & Row, 1977. PR6061.Y37 S9 1977
A companion piece to Sylvia Plath's Three women, text of which is included (p. 71-92).
     
     
     

 

Biographical