The Bed Book

London: Faber, 1976 . First edition. Cloth. Very Good/Very Good Indeed. 8.5" by 5.5". Quentin Blake. The first edition of this uncommon children's rhyme by Sylvia Plath, illustrated throughout by Quentin Blake. The uncommon first edition, first impression of this unusual work, in which a humorous rhyme by Sylvia Plath is accompanied by the illustrations of Quentin Blake.In the publisher's original price unclipped dust wrapper.An uncommon posthumous publication of a rhyming work by Sylvia Plath, in which she humorously compiles ideas of fanciful and imaginary beds. Published at the behest of her husband and literary executor, Ted Hughes.In her Sunday Times review, literary critic Margery Fisher remarked that in this work 'Quentin Blake has matched Sylvia Plath's incisive nonsense verses with superbly descriptive drawings, in a book that has the zest and inventiveness, and the wide applicability, of a good family joke'. In the publisher's original cloth binding, with price unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, fine. Tail of front and rear hinge strained, but firmly held. Sunning to dust wrapper back strip, with wraps bright. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good