Johnny Panic by Plath, First Edition (50 results)

Condition: Good. 1st. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Sylvia Plath commented in her journals: 'For me, writing verse is an evasion of the real job of writing'. From her mid-teens she wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional story writer.When the first edition of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the Guardian:'.the book does offer.new insight into her development as a writer,' suggesting how even her mistakes and dead ends contributed to the formation of an original and pathfinding talent.'This second edition contains the thirteen stories included in the first edition together with five of her more interesting pieces of journalism and a few fragments from her journal; and in Part IV, a further nine stories selected from the Indiana Archive. All items are given approximate dates of composition in so far as that is known. A collection that outlines the author's early preoccupation with issues of mental illness, creativity and femininity, all of which would become recurrent themes in her later work. It contains the thirteen stories together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good clean reading copy, tanning, light wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Second printing. Introduction by Ted Hughes. About fine, lacking the dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Not price-clipped (£4.95 price intact). Published by Faber and Faber, 1977. Octavo. Hardcover. Book is very good. Dust jacket is very good. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. UK hardback first impression. VG with a slight spine roll and modest knocks to bottom corners, in Good only jacket, unclipped with the usual spine fade to orange ink.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large octavo size [16x24cm approx]. Very Good condition in Very Good Dustjacket. DJ protected in our clear archival purpose-made plastic sleeve. A nice copy. DJ has mild chipping to lower edges. Chaper decorations by Mimi Weisbord. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Robust, professional packaging and tracking provided for all parcels. 313 pages. This collection brings together nineteen of Sylvia Plath's surviving short stories, five of her best pieces of journalism and a selection of excerpts from her journals, with an illuminating Introduction by Ted Hughes.

Paperback. Condition: Good. From her mid-teens Sylvia Plath wrote stories, at first easily and successfully, but then with increasing difficulty as the demands of her real vision complicated her growing ambition to make a career as a conventional storywriter. When the first edition of Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams appeared, Margaret Walters said of it in the Guardian, 'the book does offer . . . new insight into her development as a writer, suggesting how even her mistakes and dead ends contributed to the formation of an original and pathfinding talent'. This second edition contains the thirteen stories included in the first edition together with five pieces of her journalism, as well as a few fragments from her journal; and a further nine stories selected from the Indiana archive. Spine and top of cover faded; foxing. 352 pages.

Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 313 pages. Minor sunning to dust jacket spine, else a clean, unmarked copy with only minor wear to dust jacket. Record # 458512.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Stated First Edition with a complete number line including 1. No markings. Dust jacket is price-clipped, in a protective cover.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First American Edition. Nice copy of first printing. Unmarked, tight and square. Price intact jacket is a nice one. In mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, vi, 313 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good dust jacket. Spine deep pictorial yellow with green and purple lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Slight age toning exteriorly with few instances of chips to the edges and closed tear to mid spine. Boards have light wear with minor bumping to head fore corners and mild tilt to the spine. Text block has lightly age toned edges with deckled fore edge. First Edition, First Printing. 1371450. FP New Rockville Stock.

Condition: 2 VG PBs. 1st PB ed/2d. In the brief 13 years of her writing life, Plath wrote a substantial body of prose, only a portion of which survives, most of it in the form of stories. This collection brings togethe the best of her surviving stories, earliest dating from 1950, plus 5 of her best pieces of journalism and a selection of excerpts from her journals. Ted Hughes gives an illuminating introduction that further documents her work. Includes Sweetier Pie and Gutter Men, All the Dead Dears, Tongues of Stone, Among the Bumblebees. PLUS: Full biography of author of The Bell Jar, the gifted poet whose short life has become a legend. The golden-haired girl who won all the prizes; suicidal theme of The Bell Jar; naive, ambitious student of Letters Home; brilliant, anguished author of Ariel; the masochistic goddess bent on destruction. Drawing on letters, published works, and interviews with those who knew her, Butscher probes her violently conflicting feelings for her parents, her husband, children, the unrelenting pressures that drove her to seek fame and recognition, the anger and despair that are the source of her greatest poems.

First Edition. 1st USA edition, 1st printing, 1979. A clean, tidy copy in tight binding. Dust jacket not price-clipped; protected in removable clear film. Used - Very Good. VG hardback in VG dust jacket.

Cloth Spine. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Mimi Weisbord (illustrator). First US Edition. Brown cloth with orange gilt to spine and orange paste down. Beige endpapers. Original dust jacket, unclipped. Deckle side edge. First US edition stated. Chapter heading devices and title illustrated by Mimi Weisbord. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Tear to head of dust jacket spine other a near fine copy. Text block clean and square. A very good copy.

1st Edition. Hardback. Very good in near very good, edge worn, faded on spine and plastic protected, d/w. Spine and corners bumped, pages a bit yellowed. Please email for exact postage quote and information on any available discounts (PLEASE NOTE: International Economy shipping is by sea and may take up to 90 days to arrive).

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 250pp., Neat ownership details o/w nice copy in unevenly sunned unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Ted Hughes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First American edition. Introduction by Ted Hughes. Fine in a near fine dust jacket with some toning and slight edgewear.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Very scarce first edition in Hungarian of Plath's Johnny Panic., a collection of 18 stories in translations by Galvolgyi Judit. Quality softback as issued. A fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. First Edition. Stated first edition with the '1' in a number line. Together with the DVD of the film SYLVIA starring Gwyneth Paltrow as Sylvia and Daniel Craig as Ted Hughes. Short stories, prose, and diary excerpts. edited by Hughes. Both book and DVD are pristine; in fact, the DVD is still in its plastic shrink-wrap, never opened or viewed.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Nice copy octavo 250pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in like price-clipped dust jacket with tiniest fading at spine. Introduction by Ted Hughes.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. Stated First Edition. 1/4 brown cloth over boards. Floral decorated dust jacket. 8vo. vi, 313 pp. Fine. Crisp, tight, and clean. Near Fine DJ. There is minor edgewear. Not price clipped.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Brown clothbound spine with terracotta paper-covered boards, totally clean and tight, with deckled edge and moderate foxing to top and bottom text block. Top board is very slightly warped. In a very good dust jacket, not price-clipped, but darkened at edges and flap-fold, and with three quarter-inch tears at front top and very mild chipping at spine bottom, now protected in mylar. Nineteen of Plath's stores, the earliest from 1950, and five of her best pieces of journalism. Also, a selection of excerpts from her journals and Ted Hughes' introduction. 2.

First edn. 8vo,pp. 313. A VG copy in dj.

1st edition hardback with dust jacket Very nice copy octavo 250pp., Neat ownership signature o/w nice copy in like unclipped dust jacket. Introduction by Ted Hughes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Hardcover Very Good Harper and Row, 1979 hardcover, first edition Cover, text, and binding show minimal wear Dust jacket good, with a few small chips and closed tears.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine neat owners inscription on front end paper. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - not price clipped and no faults except for two small chips and some fading of pink/brown on spine (see picture). 1st Edition. Brown board covers with brown cloth spine. Stated First US Edition on copyright page with full number line. Uncut side page edges.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams; first Japanese translation, with an inscription from the translator (Akira Minami) to Olwyn Hughes, Plath's sister-in-law and Ted Hughes sister. Published in 1980 by Yumi Shobo. Other stories in the collection that are translated include: America! America! The Day Mr Prescott Died, The Wishing Box, Ocean 1212-W and all the other stories to Snow Blitz ie what belongs to the section 'The more successful short stories and prose pieces' in the English edition. Book is in very good condition, with dust jacket. Book comes from the library of Frieda Hughes, handed down from Olwyn Hughes.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo. [4], v-vi, 312, [2] pp. Quarter brown cloth over orange paper boards with orange lettering on the spine. Price of $10.95 on front flap of dust jacket. Illustrated title page. Near Fine book with traces of fading to the boards in a Near Fine dust jacket with a few hints of edge wear.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition; First Printing. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 250 pages; 1977 Faber & Faber. HC/DJ 1st edition, 1st printing. Very snugly bound and neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright title lettered dust jacket with publisher's 4.95 net price intact to unclipped front flap. Feels and appears generally unread with no marks. Orange colored dust jacket lettered in black and white is notoriously light sensitive; this example is uniformly bright with no fading. Some trace foxing to the jacket flaps. A very handsome copy and uncommon thus. NF/NF.