Little Boy Blues

New York: E.P. Dutton, 1947. First Edition. Octavo (21cm). Black cloth boards, stamped in red on spine and front cover; dustjacket; 223pp. Review copy, with publisher's slip laid in. Endpapers mildly darkened, else a tight, Near Fine copy in the original pictorial dustwrapper. Jacket is unclipped, lightly worn at spine ends, with a small closed tear at upper margin of front panel; Very Good. Third volume of Willis's loosely-connected postwar trilogy about jazz musicians in the Midwest. Preceded by Tangleweed (1943) and The Wild Faun (1945). HANNA 3829. (Inventory #: 14922)