Hilda CONKLING / Poems by a Little Girl Signed 1st Edition 1920

Poems by a Little Girl. Author: CONKLING, Hilda Title: Poems by a Little Girl Publication: New York: Frederick A. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and pale green paper over boards.

Binding mildly edgeworn, with spine lettering rather rubbed; endpapers and front preliminary leaves a tad age toned. First edition, tight and quite nice, of the first verse collection by this at-that-time ten-year-old. This copy bears choice autograph addition: Tipped to front flyleaf is a modern typescript of her poem "Hills, " which appears on page 115 of this volume. On a heavy stock 6" X 4" card, this 12-line is neatly typed, below which she boldly pens referring to the poem's closing lines, They have not gone far / In the time I've watched them... / Hilda Conkling in blue ballpoint.

Undated, but with pencilled 1983 on verso in another hand. Quite unusual: Penned at age nine and this copy signed 64 years later. Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts. Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts deals in out-of-print and antiquarian books, autographs and historic documents, ephemera, maps and pre-1900 newspapers. Member: ABAA, MWABA, The Manuscript Society.

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