A gorgeous compendium of Joni Mitchell's handwritten lyrics and drawings originally
handcrafted as a gift for a select group of friends in 1971 and now available to the public for
the first time In 1971 as her album Blue topped charts around the world Joni Mitchell
crafted one hundred copies of Morning Glory on the Vine as a holiday gift for her closest
friends. For this stunningly beautiful book Joni hand-wrote an exquisite selection of her own
lyrics and poems and illustrated them with more than thirty of her original pictures.
Handcrafted signed and numbered in Los Angeles the existing copies of this labor of love
have rarely been seen in the past half-century. Now during Joni's seventy-fifth birthday year
Morning Glory on the Vine: Early Songs and Drawings will be widely available for the first
time. In this faithfully reproduced edition Joni's best-loved lyrics and poems spill across
the pages in her own elegant script. The lively full-color drawings depict a superb array of
landscapes still lifes portraits of friends self-portraits innovative abstractions and
more. All the artwork from the original book is included along with several additional
pictures that Joni drew of her friends from the same period. Finally the refreshed volume
features an original introduction written by Joni. Morning Glory on the Vine is a gorgeous and
intimate keepsake and an invitation to explore anew the dazzling visionary world of Joni
Mitchell.
