Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1960. Her first book, a collection of poems that derive from her having had a nervous breakdown. After a relatively short, illustrious career as a poet -- she won the Pulitzer Prize in 1966, and her books were generally received with much praise -- Sexton committed suicide in 1974. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication. Short ink mark to front cover of the book; a touch of wear to the spine ends; very near fine in a near fine, price-clipped dust jacket with tiny chips to the tips and corners and a label removal scar to the spine affecting the last to letters of the title there. Laid in is a gift card that relates the circumstances of having the book inscribed, in part, "She took four years to get over a nervous breakdown, but you would never know it to meet her..." [#029170] SOLD