Growing Pains

New York: B.W. Huebsch, 1918.

Price: $500.00

Hardcover. First edition. Sunning and foxing to the papercovered boards, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. The author's first book, a volume of poetry, Inscribed to Vachel Lindsay on the front fly: "To Vachel with Christmas love, from Jean." Tipped to the bottom of the page is a (possibly homemade) Christmas card dated 1918 from the author's husband, the poet Louis Untermeyer, amusingly Inscribed (and referencing Lindsay's book: *The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems*): "To A Chinese Nightingale from A – Oh, a lyric Jewsharp... Louis Untermeyer, 1918."

Item #97384

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Item #97384 Growing Pains. Jean Starr UNTERMEYER.