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“Nothing on eBay, so I googled it, and found the website that talked about how rare it is, and then the link to the Bonhams page,” she said. Anyway, I took it to lectures throughout that term, used it for essays and so on, and treated it just like all my other books, except that I never wrote my name in it.”Ī few weeks ago, she was looking at eBay and the book “popped into” her head, so she did a search. “I asked the chap in the shop what the ‘not for sale’ note meant on the front as I was slightly anxious I might be buying something a bit dodgy.

It can’t have been much, because I never had any money as a student,” she told the Guardian. “I remember buying it, but not how much it cost. The woman, who blogs as Lucy WithaY, said she bought it in a Winchester secondhand bookshop during her first year in college in 1985, as it was required reading. The edition had previously been sitting in the spare room of an ex-civil servant in Wiltshire for the last 25 years. The changes extend “our understanding of her involvement in the creative process beyond the composition of the work itself”, according to Steinberg. He says that the differences “are the result of edits made either by Plath herself when she reviewed the proof or by the editors as they prepared the final typesetting” and show “that Plath read her proofs of The Bell Jar very carefully”. There aren’t many around – I’d say in the dozens rather than in the hundreds.”īonhams quotes Plath expert Peter K Steinberg on the changes in the text.

“I hadn’t seen one until we sold one in 2013 for £5,000. “These are very rare,” said Matthew Haley, the head of the book department at Bonhams. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.” The character was originally named Plato, the proof shows. “I collected men with interesting names,” she writes in the final edition. The proof also shows how Plath switched the name of one of her characters. The Bell Jar proof copy coming to auction.