The Hedgehog.

by H.D

£500 · Offered by Henry Sotheran Ltd

H.D.'S Only Work for Children H.D. The Hedgehog. London: The Brendin Publishing Company. The Curwen Press. 1956. Small 8vo. Original green paper boards with front cover lettered in black within black rules and title lettering in black to spine; enclosed within green dust jacket; black and white vignette illustrations in the text by George Plank; pp. [vi], 77, [3]; spine ends bumped with small chip at head; margins of the wrappers darkened and a little spotted; foxing to the foredge; spine of the boards with signs of humidity impact strangely not affecting wrappers; offsetting from end papers reaching a few pages in from the beginning; otherwise internally good. First edition, one of 300 copies. "Madd, c'est pas un nom" and by that she meant, "Madge, isn't a name at all". One of the most prolific women poets of the Modernist era, The Hedgehog was H.D.'s (Hilda Doolittle) only work for children and a scarce title that was initially begun in 1924 as a pacifist treatise. H.D.'s first husband joined the British Army to serve in World War I and subsequently, H.D. took over his role as the assistant editor of The Egoist . In 1916, she went onto publish her first poetry collection, Sea Garden (Constable) . Her brother was later killed in action in 1918. In the same year, she began a forty-year relationship with the iconic novelist Bryher who used her financial status to promote the careers of many of the writers of the Modernist era including Sylvia Beach's bookshop Shakespeare and C

• Binding: Hardcover

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