NMLP P-037320 · True-first precedence · minted 2026-07-19
The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath · Heinemann (London) · 1963
UK Heinemann 1963 under 'Victoria Lucas' is the true first. The first US edition (Harper & Row, 1971), published under Plath's real name eight years later, is a separate, later first. The 'Victoria Lucas' Heinemann first is the landmark and is very scarce in the dust jacket.
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New Mexico Literacy Project — True-first precedence NMLP P-037320 for "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-037320, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).