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Joan Adeney Easdale (1913-1998), Amber Innocent, The Hogarth Press, 1939. Cloth binding in gilt letters with dust jacket, 60 pages. 
Jacket designed by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961), English painter and interior designer, and sister of Virginia Woolf.

When Joan sent a few poems off to the Virginia Woolf in 1930, they were immediately intrigued. Wolfs wrote of her to Hugh Walpole. "The girl poet is my discovery... Joan Adeney finished her 60-page poems, Amber Innocent, which the Woolfs published in 1939.

The life of Joan Easdale has recently been described in a biography ''Who was Sophie? The lives of My Grandmother, Poet and Stranger'' , written by her granddauhter Celia Robertson. Joan suffers severe paranoia and was admitted to Holloway Sanatorium in October 1954 and remained there until September 1961, when she discharged herself. She lived as a vagrant for a period and later settfed in Notingham  under an assumed name, Sophie or Sophia.

Rare book, according to information only 1000 copies, very difficult to find with dust jacket. 

Good condition, clean nice interior, unfortunately spine on the jacket missing. 

Here is selected poem from Amber Innocent :

The sun was sinking. In an upstairs window
A tailor's dummy underwent transfiguration. 
A crimson tape-measure crossed the bust
As an order, such as queens wear, 
And her diamonds were scintillating dust. 
Paper-covered books curled, 
A needle slid towards the scissors on the sill, 
Shadows unfurled
Like rolls of dark crepe across the counter. 
For so things happen when the tailor turns the key 
And goes away, and one's there to see. 
None can witness when a change is wrought 
Till afterwards. Few have heard 
The last tick before the clock stop short
Or seen the crack appear upon the ceiling. 



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