WAR AND PEACE. A Novel by Leo Tolstoy. A New and Complete Translation from the Russian, by Constance Garnett. TOLSTOY, Leo. Published William Heinemann, London 1904. First Constance Garnett edition. Printed by T. and A. Constable, three volumes, hardcover, 9" x 6", dark green cloth with embossed gilt printing on the spine and embossed printers device on the rear covers, top edge gilt, red and black printed title pages, 516, 518, 502 pages. VERY GOOD Condition: light wear and small staining to the covers, top edge gilt dusted, foxing to the page edges, and spots of foxing here and there throughout but mostly on the first and last 25 pages, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

This historically significant 1904 three volume set features the acclaimed translation by Constance Garnett. While earlier, indirect translations existed, Garnett's translation was crucial in bringing Tolstoy's Russian text directly to English readers. Garnett was recognized for being the first to translate this epic directly from Russian rather than via French.

The novel, first published in 1869, explores the lives of aristocratic Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.

Constance Clara Garnett (1861-1946) was an important translator of Russian literature of the late nineteenth century, with her editions of works by Tolstoy, Anton Chekov and Fyodor Dostoevsky marking their first serious appearance in English. Her translations remain relevant and inspire debate to this day.

We Have Come for Your Daughters - What Went Down on the Medicine Ball Caravan, by John Grissim Jr.

NEW YORK: William Morrow & Company, 1972. First edition. Front cover photo by Annie Leibovitz.

Condition: GOOD book, the covers have edge wear including a few bumps, bumped corner tips, and a bit of water staining at the bottom; internally very nice, tight, bright, clean, clear and unmarked. In an only FAIR dustjacket that has edge and spine end wear, including chips, and small tears.

About the Book, which was about the making of the Movie: (from the DJ flap):

******At 11:55 A.M. on the 4th of August, 1970, a hundred and fifty members of the West Coast hip community left San Francisco aboard a caravan of buses, trucks, cars, trailers, campers, and motorcycles. They were headed for the East Coast and then England. And they had a job to do: represent a new lifestyle, one based on communal ethics, music, respect for the land, the drug experience, sexual openness, and total personal freedom. They were self-proclaimed working freaks, and their employer was Warner Bros., which wanted to make a documentary film about hippies and had hired Academy Award winning director François Reichenbach and his crew to do just that.******

About the MOVIE: (from IMDB)

******The Medicine Ball Caravan is a documentary film that was released in August 1971. Warner Bros. funded the cross-country trip with the intention of capitalizing on the success of the Woodstock documentary. It captured a massive caravan of 150 hippies, musicians (including B.B. King), and the Hog Farm commune traveling from San Francisco to D.C. The footage was shot by French director François Reichenbach, however Warner Bros. executives were not happy with it, so a young Martin Scorsese was brought in to edit the film to make it more commercial. The film was a commercial and critical flop.******

SELECTED POEMS, by DIANE di PRIMA..

VERMONT: North Atlantic Books, 1977. Second edition, revised and enlarged.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by di PRIMA on the title page:

"For Jo / In friendship / HAPPY BIRTHDAY! / Diane di Prima / Aug 3 1999".

Softcover book, 6x9 inches, 386 pages.

GOOD MINUS condition, the covers are sunned, foxed, the spine has a crease, and there is some corner tip wear; the page edges are foxed; internally, the pages are tight, bright, clean and clear.

A special copy with di Prima's Happy Birthday inscription to her good friend Jo Kaufman.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

TIMEBOMB, by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, this being copy number 43 of only 100 copies. Each copy is SIGNED and NUMBERED by di Prima on the Colophon page (the last page).

THIS COPY is also INSCRIBED by di PRIMA on the half-title page to her close friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / with all my love / Diane di Prima / Thanks for the friendship - the play dates.... ....".

Self-produced publication, plain 8.5 inch sheets velo bound in clear plastic covers, approximately 52 pages (26 sheets). Produced in San Francisco in 2006.

Cover art by di Prima.

FINE condition, bright, clean and clear.

A wonderful inscription defining a long, loving friendship between two women.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

SEMINARY POEMS, by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / with much love / Diane".

Chapbook, paper wrappers with French flaps, string bound, 6x9 inches, 48 unnumbered pages.

POINT REYES STATION, California: Floating Island Publications, 1991.

FINE condition, tight, bright, clean and clear.

Rather special with the loving inscription to her close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

SEVEN LOVE POEMS FROM THE MIDDLE LATIN, translated by Diane di Prima.

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by Diane di Prima to her good friend, Jo Kaufman:

"For Jo / this chapbook from another time / In friendship and love / Diane di Prima".

Chapbook, paper wrappers, side stapled, 6x9 inches, 32 unnumbered pages. Text in Latin and English, on facing pages.

NEW YORK: The Poets Press, second printing, 1967.

GOOD condition: A paperclip imprint is on the front cover and the first leaf, the paperclip has also left its yellow ghost image on the first leaf; otherwise the chapbook is bright, clean, clear and unmarked.

Unique with the loving inscription to a close friend.

About DIANE di PRIMA (from Wikipedia):

******Diane di Prima, b.1934 d.2020, was an American poet, known as one of the first female poets in the Beat movement. She was also an artist, prose writer, and teacher. Di Prima spent the late 1950s and early 1960s in Manhattan, which is where she became involved in the emerging Beat movement. She edited the newspaper The Floating Bear with Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), was co-founder of the New York Poets Theatre, and founder of the Poets Press. On several occasions she faced charges of obscenity due to her work with the New York Poets Theatre and The Floating Bear. In 1961 she was arrested by the FBI for publishing two poems in The Floating Bear.

In the 1960s, di Prima moved permanently to California where she became involved with the Diggers and studied Buddhism. In 2009, di Prima became San Francisco's poet laureate.******

About JO KAUFMAN (from her obituary):

******Jo Kaufman, b.1950 d.2025, earned an MFA in Creative Writing, taught at the University of San Francisco, and studied poetry with Diane di Prima. She and di Prima became close friends, a friendship that endured for decades.******

THE FIRST TIME PERCY CAME BACK. A poetic broadside by MARY OLIVER about her BELOVED DEAD DOG, PERCY, whose spirit returns to her from time to time.

SIGNED by MARY OLIVER below her printed poem. Publisher / Printer and Date are unstated.

Broadside, printed on heavy-stock cream-colored paper, 10x14 inches.

LIMITED to only 500 numbered copies, of which this is hand numbered 384/500.

NEAR FINE condition, just lightly handled, bright and clean, a lovely copy.

A wonderful broadside poem by Mary Oliver. She loved her dog so much that it returned to her even after it died. The broadside would look beautiful mounted and framed.

About MARY OLIVER (from Wikipedia):

******Mary Jane Oliver, b.1935 d.2019, was an American poet who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1984 and the National Book Award in 1992. She found inspiration for her work in nature and had a lifelong habit of solitary walks in the wild. Her poetry is characterized by wonderment at the natural environment, vivid imagery, and unadorned language. In 2007, she was declared the best-selling poet in the United States. Oliver has been compared to Emily Dickinson, with whom she shared an affinity for solitude and inner monologues.******

SAN FRANCISCO BURNING By Helen and Pat Adam, with Drawings by Jess. Published by Oannes, Berkeley, CA, September 1963, Limited first edition, 500 copies. This is copy #10 as indicated by the small black ink stamp on the rear cover. Illustrated wraps printed in black and brown attached to card covers, 9.75" x 7.5", 98 numbered pages printed on heavy brown paper, with one leaf of blue paper serving as a section divider, illustrated with line drawings by Jess in black and brown ink here and there throughout. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked, one of the best preserved copies I've seen.

A controversial 1963 ballad opera written by Helen Adam in collaboration with her sister Pat Adam is replete with subversive themes of occult destruction, sexual transgression, and explicit blasphemy. Set during the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, the dark chaotic narratives reflect subversive queer and alternative lifestyles which challenged the traditional gender power dynamics of the mid 20th century. Scottish American Poet Helen Adam (1909-1993) A prominent figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and was one of only four women included in Donald Allen's The New American Poetry 1945-1960 anthology. She was a great performer and maybe one of the most important forebears of the way poets read their poetry in public today.

EPILOGOS by Robert Duncan.

Published by Black Sparrow Press, Los Angeles, 1967. Signed limited first edition, #20 of 115 copies. Signed by Robert Duncan with an original ink drawing. Presentation copy inscribed to Duncan's close friends Ham (Hamilton) and Mary Tyler. Deep red illustrated wraps, 6.75" x 6.25", string tied, 10 numbered pages. NEAR FINE Condition: tight, bright, clean and unmarked and Duncan's drawing and signature are bold and bright.

A major, transcendent poem by the influential American writer Robert Duncan (1919-1988) a central figure in the San Francisco Renaissance and the Black Mountain School of poetry. He was celebrated for his deeply philosophical, spiritually charged writing that blended mythology, the Western esoteric tradition, and an advocacy for LGBTQ+ civil rights.

Hamilton Tyler (1917-1983) noted scholar and author who wrote books on Pueblo Indian culture, ornithology (particularly owls), and a definitive guide to North American swallowtail butterflies. Ham was an outspoken and influential anarchist who fought with the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. Ham and Mary befriended many writers and were long time friends of Robert Duncan. Mary was an accomplished poet and was at one point married to the poet William Everson.

BEAT AND BEATIFIC

Published by the Three Penny Press, Studio City, CA 1959, Grover Haynes (editor), Rosie Haynes (hand-lettering), first edition, "Superbly decorated bi John Fox II." Uncommon production from the Three Penny Press featuring early poetry by Lenore Kandel and Walter C. Brown. Another 1959 Three Penny Press production "Beat and Beatific II" is the second volume of this collaboration. From Grover Haynes epilogue "The THREE PENNY PRESS, inspired by the abundance of poetry on the lips of local barefoot bards, was conceived from the inky womb of a battered mimeograph machine to become the Boswell of our own "don't give a damn" poets." ... Our booklets of poetry are experiments." Softcover. First edition. Illustrated wraps, 8.5" x 5.5", 2pp, 20 leaves, 2pp, mimeographed sheets, side staple bound, text printed on recto of 20 leaves, except for first and final leaf, which contain text on recto and verso. The work of Lenore Kandel printed on blue, yellow and pink paper and is illustrated with a full page b&w drawing of her. GOOD Condition: age, wear and coffee rings to the covers, former owners name penned to inside front cover, internally some edge wear and a few light stains, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked.

Lenore Kandel (1932-2009) Beat Poet, Digger, Visionary, quintessential San Francisco Hippie, Beatnik, Counterculture activist, girlfriend of Lew Welch and Jack Kerouac's lover whom he immortalized in his 1962 novel Big Sur. She bridged the gap between early Beat poetics and the psychedelic counterculture, famous for her "The Love Book," a cause celebre in the Haight Ashbury scene when it was banned as obscene in 1966. In 1970 Kandel was in a horrific motorcycle accident from which she never fully recovered.

Walter C. Brown (b.1935), Poet, Naval Officer and San Francisco Giants sports commentator.

A SPORT AND A PASTIME

James Salter. Published by Paris Review Editions / Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1967. First Edition, first printing. Hardbound in blind stamped royal blue cloth covers with black cloth spine titled in gilt, 8.5" x 5.5", blue endpapers, 191 pages. VERY GOOD Condition book with former owner's name written in slightly smeared green crayon on the ffep, a touch of gilt loss on the spine border, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. In a GOOD dustjacket that is frayed at its spine ends, has a 1 inch closed tear to the top rear spine fold, is worn at the corner tips, creased with some small chips and closed tears along the top edge, and just lightly so along the bottom edge, spine lightly sunned, and has a touch of green crayon offsetting on the front fold, otherwise bright and doing its job well. The dustjacket has its original $4.50 price at the top of the front fold.

A masterpiece of erotic literature that was scandalous despite its publication during the sexual revolution. A sexually uninhibited novel about the erotically charged love affair between a young American Yale dropout, Phillip Dean, and a French shopgirl, Anne-Marie, in 1960s France, told through the lens of an unreliable, voyeuristic narrator who seems to fantasize and imagine much of the story, blurring the lines between reality and dream. The book is celebrated for its lyrical prose, frank depiction of sexual desire, and exploration of the sensual and the spiritual, establishing Salter as a major American stylist.

SONG OF THE DRAGON AND OTHER STORIES, by John Taintor Foote. A collection of seven short stories.

Published by D. Appleton and Company, New York and London, 1923. First edition in book form. The title story, Song of the Dragon, was originally published as a two part serial in The Saturday Evening Post in 1921.

Hardcovers, red cloth covered boards gilt titling to the front cover and spine, 5x7.5 inches, 311 numbered pages, plus a few prelim pages and a page of ads at the rear, no dustjacket.

GOOD condition, the covers spine is sunned, the spine gilt is faded, the gilt on the front cover less so, otherwise the covers are sturdy and doing their job well; internally, the lovely bookplate of William Sewall Wells is on the front pastedown, the pages are lightly toned, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. A solid, presentable copy.

About THE SONG OF THE DRAGON by JOHN TAINTOR FOOTE, and the film NOTORIOUS by ALFRED HITCHCOCK (extracts from IMDB and Wikipedia):

******Alfred Hitchcock's 1946 film Notorious was inspired by a short story titled "The Song of the Dragon" by American writer John Taintor Foote. The story originally appeared as a two part serial in the Saturday Evening Post in 1921 and published in book form in 1923. While the film was significantly reworked by screenwriter Ben Hecht, it retained the core plot of Foote's story: a woman with a troubled past is recruited by government agents to seduce and gather information from a leader of a group of enemies. Among the changes are: in the story the action is set during World War I in New York, rather than in post World War II Rio de Janeiro, and the WWI mysterious enemy agents are replaced with Nazis.******

WALDEN by Henry David Thoreau. Published by Houghton, Mifflin and Company, Boston and New York / The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1897. First edition thus, two volumes, Introduction By Bradford Torrey. xliii, 260; vi, 261-523 pages, illustrated with photogravures. Art nouveau cover design by Sarah Wyman Whitman, featuring stylized milkweed leaves, a reference to the native plant frequently mentioned in Thoreau's writings Bound in publisher's green cloth with decorative gilt stamping, laid endpapers, top edge gilt. A lovely edition of an American classic.

Very Good Condition: lacking dustjackets, light rubbing, scratching to covers, rear cover of volume 2 with an apple seed size tape piece adhered to an embossed gilt decoration, light wear to the corners, some light scrapes to the fore-edge, and sunned spines. Internally, off-setting to the prelim pages of Volume 2 from a newspaper article laid in (still present), and a bottom corner margin shoreline to the half title and frontis plates which lightly and diminishingly affect the following 8 plates. Overall, tight, bright, clean, unmarked and the gilt remains quite bright.

Sarah Wyman Whitman (1842-1904) was a Painter, Designer of book covers and stained glass, an Interior Decorator, Author, Poet, and Teacher. She was one of the most prominent book designers during the golden age of decorative bindings, notable for her elegant and restrained designs that made use of the rear board as well as the front. She was the first professional woman artist regularly employed by Boston publisher Houghton Mifflin. Whitman was one of the few successful female designers of her time, and her work was highly respected by her peers. She was also a prominent philanthropist and supporter of women's education and suffrage. Whitman's legacy continues to inspire and influence contemporary artists and designers.

Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) was an American writer, philosopher, and naturalist, best known for his book "Walden," a reflection on simple living in natural surroundings. Thoreau was a transcendentalist who believed in the importance of individualism, self-reliance, and the power of nature. He was also an advocate for civil disobedience and the abolition of slavery. Thoreau's writings continue to inspire and influence people today, and he is considered one of the most important figures in American literature and philosophy.

DORIS LESSING POSTER. "AN EVENING TO BENEFIT THE AFGHAN REFUGEE FUND / DORIS LESSING". The "Lecture and Conversation" event took place on April 9 (1984) in Berkeley, California.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED and DATED by DORIS LESSING in Silver Ink: "With good wishes / Doris Lessing / 9th April 1984".

The poster is 13 x 19.5 inches. It is in GOOD condition, with some creases from handling to the right margin, overall bright and lovely.

The poster was stored rolled, and will be shipped in its natural rolled state. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

This event took place a few years before the publication of her book "The Wind Blows Away Our Words". The book was about the horrors taking place in Afghanistan and how the West was doing little to help.

An unusual Doris Lessing item.

ITALIAN EDITION OF OUR TOWN TRANSLATED by NOTED MID 20th CENTURY FEMALE TRANSLATOR WILDER CALLS HER TRANSLATION "ONE OF THE WORST TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE"

PICCOLA CITTÀ [OUR TOWN], by THORNTON WILDER. Published by Franco Campitelli, Editore, Roma, 1944. Softcovers, French flaps, 5.5x8.5 inches. ITALIAN edition, translated from the English by Alessandra Scalero.

SIGNED, INSCRIBED by THORNTON WILDER to Fellow Playwright GEORGE KELLEY:

"George Kelley - Cordial greetings / Thornton Wilder / Hamden Conn / January 1950."

Below which Thornton wrote (caps added for emphasis):

"Note page 73 - The Translator has omitted 'the address on the envelope' - one of the many places which render this version one of the WORST TRANSLATIONS POSSIBLE."

FAIR condition: The wrappers are reinforced and held together with clear tape at the spine and front hinge, otherwise the covers are lightly toned, have some corner and edge creases, and a chip to the top edge, but remain bright and clear. Internally in good condition, the pages are toned, especially at the margins. Overall a complete copy with tape reinforcement to the spine and hinges.

The bitter, anti-woman inscription by Thornton Wilder makes this book special.

ALESSANDRA SCALERO was an important FEMALE ITALIAN TRANSLATOR who translated many important works, including Virginia Woolf's Orlando, and was considered a feminist scholar who, amazingly was able to capture the essence of subversive novels, including Orlando, in Italy during the repressive 1930's and 1940's. You can read about her online. Here are a couple Internet tidbits:

"Translating Orlando in 1930s Fascist Italy: Virginia Woolf, translated by Alessandra Scalero // The first full translation of Orlando in Italian was published on 1 October 1933 by Arnoldo Mondadori Editore. What made the Italian translation of Orlando such a literary and economic success was not only the brilliance of the novel but also, as I shall show, the lexical expertise and brilliance of its translator, Alessandra Scalero. In her translation Scalero was able to remain true to the spirit and the style of a subversive novel and what is more remarkable, she accomplished this feat in a climate of repressive censorship."

"Alessandra Scalero worked as a literary translator from English, German, and French for the publishing houses Mondadori and Il Corbaccio, from the late 1920s to the early 1940s. She translated novels by many prominent authors including Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, John Dos Passos and Daphne Du Maurier and often translated works for Mondadori's Medusa series. Scalero translated Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop into Italian in 1936, and Cather wrote she was impressed with the quality of the work."

Key Words: Women, Women Authors, Women Translators, Italy, Italian Feminism

LOVER OF ROBER GRAVES ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN 1927 SAID SHE WOULD NEVER WRITE ANOTHER POEM

A POEM : HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. A Lovely BROADSIDE POEM by LAURA RIDING JACKSON.

SIGNED by LAURA RIDING JACKSON at the end of her poem, beneath her printed name.

Published by [Lord John Press, 1980]. Presentation Copy - Presentation Copies are normally printed prior to numbered copies, making them quite hard to find. Subsequently printed in a limited edition of only 150 numbered copies.

Broadside, printed on fine, heavy stock, watermarked paper (Arches, France), deckled top and bottom edges, 15x22 inches.

NEAR FINE condition, a bright and beautiful copy. Would look great mounted and/or framed.

From the Broadside: "Within a very few years of the publication of my Collected Poems (1938)... I renounced further trying the way of poetry... saying: I would write no more poems - and I wrote no more poems... (however) I wrote for (a close friend), in the 1978 Christmastime, a poem, marked as a poem for him only, giving it the title HOW A POEM CAME TO BE. I kept no copy of this privately written and given poem, and forgot the writing and the giving of it... I chanced, recently, to tell my friend of receiving a request for a poem to publish in broadside form from the Lord John Press, indicating my feeling some surprise that Mr. Yellin, the Press's director, should not have been aware that FOR FORTY YEARS there had been NO NEW POEMS of mine. But my friend reminded me that about a year ago there HAD been a new poem - the one I wrote for him; and he urged me to let him release it to me from its private status of being a poem for him only... I give here the poem, given him, to be out in the world..."

LAURA RIDING JACKSON, 1901-1991, was an iconoclastic American Poet. She left New England at the age of 25 to live with ROBERT GRAVES and his wife, Nancy Nicholson. The triangle did not suit her, and Laura Riding tried to commit suicide in 1927. Thereafter Robert Graves divorced his wife and lived together with Laura Riding in Majorca, France, England and Switzerland, and even went with her when she returned to the United States. They bitterly broke up in 1939. In 1941 Laura Riding Jackson renounced poetry, married Schuyler B. Jackson, and lived quietly with him in Wabasso, Florida, until her death in 1991. In the 60s, 70s and 80s she wrote a number of pieces explaining her reasons for renouncing poetry, but no poetry. This is apparently THE ONLY POEM written by Laura Riding Jackson since 1941.

You can read much more about LAURA RIDING on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the Internet.

This Large and Lovely BROADSIDE will be shipped carefully rolled in a sturdy mailing tube.