Fans of Gerda Mayer will be delighted with her new collection. Short, spare, deceptively simpleher range is wide. The poems have a vivid imagistic claritydeliciously wickedbittersweet sadness - Katie Campbell CITY LIMITS One of the most tactful namers of the Holocaust but her poems of everyday disenchantment are deepened by a powerful bitterness. She is funny but never a stand-up comedian. Like Stevie Smith she writes children's rhymes for grown-ups. - Peter Porter THE OBSERVER

First edition hard cover. From the collection of Nina Carroll (Steane) and John Steane, John being the former county archaeologist for Oxfordshire, a founder member of the Oxford Buildings Record and the Oxfordshire Buildings Trust. Gift dedication and signature from author on FEP and correspondence between Nina Carroll and Gerda Meyer laid in. General shelf and handling wear, including tanning and light wear to jacket, corners bumped, and pageblock tanned. Within, pages tightly bound, and content unmarked. CN