Plath’s dedicated poems take colossal price
Inscribed to her husband and fellow poet, Ted Hughes, the dedication copy of the first and only collection of Sylvia Plath’s verses to be published in her lifetime, The Colossus and other Poems, sold for a record £75,000.
It was offered at Sotheby’s (25/20/13.9% buyer’s premium) on July 12-19.
The inscription, in whic…