Songs to a Handsome Woman by RITA MAE BROWN - 1973

Oakland, California: Diana Press, 1973. Second edition (stated). Softcover. Near Fine. 6 1/8 x 7 3/8. Monochrome illustrations by Ginger Legato. 2F. A beautiful fresh copy of this elegantly-produced book. Tight binding, no marks. Minor soil top and bottom edges. Slight sun-fading near spine. Faint scratches back cover..

Oakland: Diana, 1973. Second edition. Wraps. Near Fine. Legato, Ginger. Wide 12mo, 39 pp. Light handling to wrappers, spine a bit faded.

Baltimore: Diana Press, 1973. Second Edition . Trade Paperback. Near Fine. 6" x 7 1/4. Legato, Ginger. 39 Pages. Cover design by Nancy Myron. Very slight hint of age-tanning spine. Ms. Brown explains that this is a book of love poems, poems inspired by a single individual......Love deepens experience, making all life exquisite and valuable....Its a very simple connection to undertand that a society or individual who denies love is a step away from denying life. Contents in 29 Poems: To the Handsome Woman, Follies, The Midnight Follies or Mary's Ass, Travelogue, The Sun in January, Dedicated to All Women Who Haven't Loved A Woman, To My Dream Butch Straight Lady Who Bolts Her Doors But Leaves Her Windows Unlatched, For the Japanese Silk in Her Ladysmith's Mind, A Woman Wronged, December 17 1971 to December 17 1972-A Narrative of Sorts, Darkness, Dreams And Death, A Pink Chambered Nautilis, Death in Absentia, The Ides of Age, On Being an Orphan at Age 27, For Those of Us Working for… Read More