NMLP P-032183 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-04

The Bell Jar

Victoria Lucas (pseudonym of Sylvia Plath) · Heinemann (London) · 1963

No book club for the true first. The defining points are the 'Victoria Lucas' pseudonym, the Heinemann 1963 imprint, and the first-impression statement; all editions naming Plath as author are later. Beware later Faber/Harper printings sold as firsts.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-032183 for "The Bell Jar" by Victoria Lucas (pseudonym of Sylvia Plath) (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-032183, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).