Author's first book, published when she was 12 years old

Nathalia Crane

The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. Very Good. Item #9089

New York: Thomas Seltzer, 1925. Later printing. Signed by Crane to a Gladys Jacobson on front free endpaper. Octavo. 76 pages. Red-orange boards stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards worn along extremities with brief exposure, spine toned, general rubbing and scuffing. Binding is sound. Pages toned but unmarked.

Written when Crane was 10 and published when she was 12, The Janitor's Boy brought her instant fame, and attracted the support of Louis Untermeyer and other poets in his orbit.

Price: $100.00