Cat on My Lap - Softcover

CAT ON MY LAP AND OTHER POEMS (INCLUDES HANDWRITTEN LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Wraps. Slim 8vo.pp. 28. Poetry. ISBN:0948478063. Signed a presentation copy:" For Gerda with thanks for encouragement and fellowship. Bob. 8/5/86." Loosely inserted: handwritten letter from the author to "Dear Gerda;"private invitation to poetry reading from Cat On My Lap; programme from the evening of poetry; please copy of a typed poem 'Woman in a Garden' (c.1867)with handwritten note by Lumsden. Proceeds from the original sale to support West Wight Inshore Rescue and Tennyson Memorial Ambulance. /Gerda Kamilla Mayer (1927 Ð 2021) was an English poet born to a Jewish family in Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia. She escaped to England from Prague in 1939, aged eleven, on a Kindertransport flight. Having composed her first poem, in German, at the age of four, she continued her education in Dorset and Surrey and began writing poetry in English. She published several volumes of verse and her poems have appeared in many anthologies. They have met with critical acclaim and praise from fellow poets such as Carol Ann Duffy, Peter Porter and Elaine Feinstein. Very good. Staples very slightly rusted. Signedes. Artikel-Nr. C83602

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