Light Metres.
Price: $250.00
Hard Cover. New York: Everest House, 1982. First Edition. Fine / Dust Jacket Included.
Drawings by Edward Gorey. First edition, first printing. Signed by Gorey on title page. Publisher's white marbled paper-covered boards, stamped in gilt; in its original white pictorial dust jacket, printed in black, yellow, purple, and blue. Fine book; near fine unclipped dust jacket, with a small closed tear to top edge of front panel and a hint of soiling to folds. Overall, a superb copy. Light Metres is poet and satirist Felicia Lamport's third collection of verse. From the dust jacket's front flap, "[Lamport and Gorey's] ironic glances zero in on our culture, from politics to dieting, from gardening to sexual peccadilloes, from middle age to the fuel crisis, with consummate style and high comedy." As an example of Lamport's humorous style, in "Enriched Dream" she asks, "Wouldn't it be great to join that gratified band / Of diet writers living off the fat of the land?" Item #EG085
