Author: BEHN, Harry
Title: The Little Hill
Description: New York, Harcourt, Brace & World, 1949. Hardcover. Small 8vo. Blue paper over boards with brown lettering and graphic, pictorial dust jacket. 59pp. Numerous small woodblock engravings. Near fine/very good. Faint jacket edgewear. Handsome early printing (not first) of this charming verse collection with dynamite engravings printed in brown. Best of all, the author inscribes and signs the dedication page huge and bold in blue ballpoint: "For Karen / from / Harry Behn." Behn (1898-1973) was a screenwriter in the 1920s who veered into teaching creative writing and authoring an impressive array of children's fiction and poetry. .

Keywords: Poetry


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