Gill, Frances — The Little Days

Boston, Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Size: 8vo 8" - 9" tall. Sturdy, attractive, tightly bound, internally clean hardcover copy, with unbruised tips, neat and tidy paste-downs; not ex-library, with neither highlighting nor underlining. Bruising to, scuffing of tips, edges, discoloration to rear panel, but a quite bright interior and illustrated by Milo Winter including the pictorial covers. "1917" on both title page and "May 1917" on copyright page. Twenty-eight poems for children, fancifully illustrated, by the Portland, Oregon-based children's author, Laura Frances Gill (1884-1937), daughter of Portland businessman J.K. Gill and student at the universities of both Oregon and California, teacher at Lincoln High School in Portland in the English Department.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Good