Everybody's Letters

The scarce first edition, first impression of this wittily composed collection of letters by the poet Laura Riding and her friends, with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of the work. With the original unclipped dust wrapper.Scarce. Laura Riding Jackson was an American poet and literary critic associated with the early twentieth-century international avant-garde and modernism. Riding first caught the public eye as a result of her associations with The Fugitives, an American-Southern group of writers stemming from Vanderbilt University. She is known to have had a lifelong fascination with letters, and inEverybody's Letters sets out to collect and curiously organise various letters (of dubious origin, however, likely exchanged between herself and her friends). The work concludes with an illuminating post-script meditation by the author on the epistolary form. In the original publisher's binding with the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, lovely with just a touch of rubbing to the boards. Light age toning to front and spine labels. Fractional bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Light spotting to the endpapers. Edgewear to the dust wrapper resulting in a few small closed tears and a chip to the front and rear near the head of the spine. The odd mark, heavier to the wrap's rear. Some discolouration to the wrap's spine and browning to its fore edge and spine on the reverse. Internally, firmly bound. Light age toning to the pages and the odd spot, with minor marks, closed tears, and chips to pp. 134-141, heavier to pp. 155-163, not impacting legibility. Good Only. …