A rare book of Sylvia Plath poems was discovered in a box of books handed into a charity shop in Glasgow.

Eddy Steel, manager of the Oxfam shop, spotted the the first edition of "Ariel" as he sorted through an anonymous donation of books.

The book is a hardback copy in good condition, with an intact dust cover.

The book has been valued at £350 and is on sale at the Oxfam shop in Victoria Road.

Mr Steel told the Press and Journal: "It's always exciting to find a first edition because you know you are holding something which is going to help Oxfam.

"In the third world £350 is a huge amount of money and can do an awful lot of good.

"The book would make an absolutely gorgeous Christmas present, and would be very unusual. Sylvia Plath books like this don't turn up that often."

The poems in Ariel mark a departure from Ms Plath's earlier work into a more personal arena of poetry and was published following her death in 1963.

The book was donated to the Oxfam shop in a box of mixed general fiction and poetry.