Oh Millersville!

by Fern Gravel by James Norman Hall

$35 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books

First edition

Muscatine, Iowa: Prairie Press, 1940. First edition, 8vo, pp. 10 , 13-110; fine copy in original terracotta cloth stamped in black on spine; dust jacket slightly soiled and with some very shallow chips at the edges. From the library of Kim Merker. Poems purportedly written 1900-1905 by a small girl in a little Iowa town, which cause a small sensation in literary circles. Hall fessed up to his hoax six years later. Cheever 34. Item #61946

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