Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell Jar' sells for £3000 at Surrey auction

A copy of Sylvia Plath’s 'The Bell Jar' in a well-preserved dust jacket sold for £3000 in a recent Surrey auction may have set a record for any uninscribed or association copy.

Published in 1963 under her pseudonym of Victoria Lucas, the author’s own revised proof copy and h…

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