HURD, MURIEL JEFFRIES — Wild Barley Author Signed Copy

Dallas, TX: The Kaleidoscope Press, 1941. First Edition (?). Hardcover. B & W ; 5 1/2 x 8; xiii, 78 pages; AUTHOR INSCRIBED AND SIGNED ON FRONT END PAPER. Hard cover is light brown with black lettering on the spine. Light rubbing, scuffing, sunning to boards. Some rubbing, scuffing, sunning and edge wear to DJ; iun a mylar cover. B/w photograph for frontispiece. Collection of poems by the Nebraska poet Hurd, who later moved to metro Detroit and became prominent in poetry and local circles. 'Hurd is a poet who sings because she must . For this reason, primarily her work arrests attention. It is real. It is the spontaneous expression of an entranced spirt interpreting this baffling life in terms of its own bewitchment. '; Signed by Author. Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .