Not I, But the Wind...
Santa Fe, NM: The Rydal Press, 1934. Hardcover. Number 134 of 1000 copies, signed by the author over a decorative seal preceding the text.. Frieda Lawrence (1879 - 1956) was born in Metz into the crea cloth covers with patterned cloHeinersdorf line of the Richthofen noble house Her father was Baron Friedrich Ernst Emil Ludwig von Richthofen, an engineer in the Imperial German Army, and her mother was Anna Elise Lydia Marquier. In 1899, she married a British philologist and professor of modern languages, Ernest Weekley, who was some fourteen years her senior. They settled in Nottingham, where Ernest was an academic at the university. During her marriage to Weekley she began to translate German literature, mainly fairy tales, into English. In 1912 she met D. H. Lawrence, a former student of her husband; she and Lawrence soon fell in love and eloped to Germany.[ During their stay Lawrence was arrested for spying; after the intervention of Frieda's father, the couple walked south over the Alps to Italy. In 1914, following her divorce, Frieda and Lawrence married. Leaving postwar England at the earliest opportunity, they traveled widely, eventually settling at the Kiowa Ranch near Taos, New Mexico, and in Lawrence's last years at the Villa Mirenda, near Scandicci in Tuscany. After her husband's death in Vence, France, in 1930, she returned to Taos to live with her third husband, Angelo Ravagli.The ranch is now owned by the University of New Mexico at Albuquerque.
Bound in cream cloth covers with a patterned cloth spine and paper spine label. Corners of covers are rubbed, exposing the black binding underneath. With a few light pencil notations on pages 19-20 and 310-311. Text pages are otherwise in very good condition. Oownership signature of Huntington Williams, a previous commissioner of public health in Baltimreo. A very good copy of this noteworthy autobiography. Measaures 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 311 pages. LIT/080726. Very Good.
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Price: $60.00