Strange Truth poems by "Elspeth"
Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Collection of poetry from "Elspeth", a frequent early contributor to the New Yorker and other magazines in the 1920's, here revealing her full name and dedicating the collection to her parents, John Mac Duffie and Abby Parsons Mac Duffie, founders of the MacDuffie School for girls. As the jacket promises, "now, at last, the Great Unknown is known. She has CONFESSED ALL in a book of poems that Heine might have written if he had come under the influence of Dorothy Parker." Damaged jacket, with loss to bottom of spine, dampstain along lower edge. Bright blue boards with paper labels. Faint dampstain in lower corner of first pages. xii, 104pp. 7.75 x 5.5" Very Good / Good. Item #2026-S41
Price: $80.00