Hull: Critical Quarterly, N.d. [1960]

8vo, pp. 24. Original printed paper wrappers. Wrappers a little browned, corners bumped, three thumb-sized 1960s coffee stains to foot of front panel, margins of pages lightly age-toned.

First edition. SYLVIA PLATH'S FIRST APPEARANCE IN BOOK FORM.

This pamphlet, an anthology of '50s writers, new poems by established poets and prize poems, trumpets on the front wrapper the inclusion of work from, among others, Kingsley Amis, Ted Hughes, Thom Gunn, John Wain and Philip Larkin. Sylvia Plath's poem, Medallion, is on p. 20, and had won a Critical Quarterly prize in 1959.