The Bell Jar

New York: Harper & Row, 1971. Third printing of the first US edition, with first state jacket (0471) to front jacket flap; number line to last page beginning on right with "3" . Octavo in dark purple illus jacket; half cloth and paper backed boards; deckle edges, 311 pages, b&w illustrations; 22 cm. Top edge white. Jack is price-clipped. . Hardcover.Esther Greenwood, a talented college student, finds herself estranged from her family and resigned to a conventional lifestyle and descends into depression and mental illness. Depression, Mental -- Fiction.