My Maiden Effort, Being the Personal Confessions of Well-known American Authors as to Their Literary Beginnings. Garden City, New York: For The Author's League of America by Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921.
First Edition. Introduction by Gelett Burgess. An uncommon anthology of 125 short essays by famous authors concerning their first literary efforts. Includes works by Gertrude Atherton, George Ade, Samuel Hopkins Adams, Mary Austin, Irving Bacheller, Rex Beach, Irvin S. Cobb, Edmund Vance Cooke, Edna Ferber, Zane Grey, Emerson Hough, Robert W. Chambewrs, Gelett Burgess, James Montgomery Flagg, Hamlin Garland, Joseph Hergesheimer, Reginald Wright Kauffman, Fannie Hurst, Harold MacGrath, William MacLeod Raine, Nina Wilcox Putnam, Kathleen Norris, Meredith Nicholson, Henry Milner Rideout, Arthur Train, Louis Joseph Vance, Ben Ames Williams, Carolyn Wells, etc. Near Fine in attractive Very Good plus dustjacket.
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