([No place]: [By the Author], 1933).

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.
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. Item #34029

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.