Description

First and only edition. Woodblock style illustrations throughout. folio, in the original printed blue paper wrappers lettered in black on the upper cover, staple bound. [20] pp. Fine with only a little toning to the wrappers, primarily along the spine edge.

Edizione: very rare (and entirely forgotten) literature by a child, composed and illustrated by the author at age fourteen during the spring of 1933.worldcat/oclc list only three copies in libraries worldwide, being yale, the new york public, and boston athenaeum. no copies can be found on the online market and the kupferberg/topp biography "children as authors" of 1959 is the only other surviving reference to its publication.<br> the author, once grown to adulthood, would go on to be an assistant editor and part-time book reviewer for the atlantic monthly. she was also known as an expert gardener, cook, furniture restorer, needlewoman, and zither player.