Anne Sexton, The Death Notebooks. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1974. Hardcover, 98 pp. First U.S. edition, first printing.
Black cloth spine over ultramarine paper-covered boards. Title stamped in white to spine and front board. Original unclipped dust jacket.
Signed in pencil on the French title page by Flemish poet and socialite Clara Haesaert, with the inscription “New York 5.5.80.” Red fluorescent Strand Bookstore price sticker to inside front cover, showing a markdown from $5.95 → $2.95.
Light edgewear to jacket; spine lettering bright. Text clean and tight.
A VG+ copy in a VG dust jacket.
Provenance: Library of Clara Haesaert, Flanders
This copy comes from the personal library of Clara Haesaert (1924–2018), esteemed Flemish poet, translator and literary organizer (founder of Galerie Taptoe, co-founder/editor of De Meridiaan, etc.).
About the Book
The Death Notebooks is a posthumous poetry collection Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Anne Sexton, published in 1974. Rich in emotional intensity and confessional in style, it examines themes of mortality, mental health, spirituality, and the self.
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