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This is a 1st Edition copy of Amanda McKittrick Ros' 'Poems of Puncture. Amanda is widely regarded as the worst novelist in history!
This was due to her unique writing style - check out a piece from her first novel:
“What must have been the breathless surprise of Lady Dilworth chiefly, and those present also, who, only the evening previous, had been pouring such praises over the magnificent duchesse satin gown, which eligible Parisian dressmakers pronounced their chief production of the season, when Irene appeared arrayed in an Irish poplin of the darkest visible shade of green, without either train or flower of distinction, not even a speck of ribbon or border of lace, and no ornament only the valued necklet which graced her pearly throat when first Sir John was tempted with her enhancing beauty to bestow upon her his choice collection of love’s purest fragrance, which should cast the sweetest scent of mutual relationship throughout the dazzling apartments of the mansion she was about to grace.”
That’s a single sentence of 128 words, punctuated with 10 commas, conveying that she was wearing a green dress, much plainer than the night before.
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