Author: Adams, Helen Douglas.
Title: The Elfin Pedlar. By Helen Douglas Adams. With a Foreword by the Rev. John A. Hutton, D.D.
Description: New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1924. 1924. RARE FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF THE POET'S FIRST BOOK - Octavo, blue cloth titled in gilt on the spine and in blue within a decorated gilt oval on the front cover. The top edge is gilt and the book is housed in a pictorial white dust wrapper. The white dust jacket is soiled with chips, small tears and a couple of small pieces out from the edges. The covers are slightly rubbed. xiii, [i] & 184 pages, with a title page vingette, 4 photographic illustrations, and facsimiles of Helen Adams' drawings and pictorial frames surrounding her written text. There is a tiny piece of paper pulling away from the inner edge of the half-title's verso. Very good.

The first American edition of the poet's first book. Rare in dust wrapper. Very good .

Keywords: LITERATURE; POETRY; POEMS; MODERN; FIRST AMERICAN EDITION; FIRST BOOK; RARE; DUST JACKET; ILLUSTRATIONS; PHOTOGRAPHS; 1ST U.S. EDITION; 20TH CENTURY; HELEN DOUGLAS ADAMS; WOMAN POET; TWENTIETH CENTURY.

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