Maxwell Struthers Burt — In the High Hills

Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, 1914 . First edition. Cloth. The scarce first edition of this collection of poetry by Maxwell Struthers Burt, from the library of Pulitzer Prize winning American poet Odell Shepard. The first edition of this scarce work.The debut poetry collection of poetry from American novelist, poet, and short-story writer Maxwell Struthers Burt.With the inscription of American professor, poet, and politician Odell Shepard, dated 1914, to the front pastedown. Shepard was the 86th Lieutenant Governor of Connecticut, and won a Pulitzer Prize in 1938 for his biography of Bronson Alcott, the father of writer Louisa May Alcott. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Externally, excellent. Boards a touch age toned to perimeters. Inscription to front free endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. Pages exceptionally clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .