Author: CONKLING, Hilda
Title: Poems by a Little Girl
Description: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. Hardcover. Preface by Amy Lowell. Small 8vo. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and pale green paper over boards. xxiv, 120pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. 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. Poet, author and Smith College professor Graze Hazard Conkling (1879-1958) wrote down the poems her daughter Hilda (1910-86) spoke between ages four and fourteen, which caused a stir when they first appeared in "Poetry" magazine when the child-poet was but six; they were published in three books -- "Poems by a Little Girl," "Shoes of the Wind" (1922) and "Silverhorn" (1924) -- and appeared in popular magazines and anthologies. 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..") "They haven't either! / 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. .
Keywords: Poetry
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Title: Poems by a Little Girl
Description: New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1920. Hardcover. Preface by Amy Lowell. Small 8vo. Blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and pale green paper over boards. xxiv, 120pp. Tissue-guarded frontispiece. Very good. 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. Poet, author and Smith College professor Graze Hazard Conkling (1879-1958) wrote down the poems her daughter Hilda (1910-86) spoke between ages four and fourteen, which caused a stir when they first appeared in "Poetry" magazine when the child-poet was but six; they were published in three books -- "Poems by a Little Girl," "Shoes of the Wind" (1922) and "Silverhorn" (1924) -- and appeared in popular magazines and anthologies. 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..") "They haven't either! / 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. .
Keywords: Poetry
Price: US$ 150.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 46885
- Book number: 46885
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