Skywriting By Word Of Mouth and Other Writings Including The Ballad of John and Yoko

New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1986. First Printing . Hard Back. Good/Good. .. 200 pages, Blue boards with silver spine lettering and silver author signature embossed on front board. Some water damage to back board and inside of back dust jacket. Otherwise an As New book with no marks or stamps. John Lennon was loved by millions, and his songs are as popular today as they were twenty years ago. This book brings back to life the workings of Lennon's amazing, innovative mind and his charm. When Lennon published two books in the 1960s, he was greeted with popular acclaim.. An original infernal machine of a mind. No punches are pulled, but many paunches are punched, remarked The London Daily Mail. Such praise also applies to this new collection of Lennon's writings and drawings. Produced during the last years of his life. John had always planned to publish Skywriting, written during Yoko Ono's pregnancy with their son Sean, but the opportunity for public release seemed to end following his assassination in 1980 and the theft of the materials from the Lennons New York home in 1982. Containing all of the wit, the playfulness, the attacks on middlebrow thinking, the sexual explicitness, and the joy for living that everyone remembers of John. Also included is Two Virgins, written in 1968 when the public discovered that John and Yoko were living together and John's autobiography: notes on his falling in love with Yoko; the breakup of the Beatles; his persecution by U.S. authorities; and his withdrawal from public life. This bfook will remind everyone what John Lennon was really like and why he is remembered with so much love.