Maude Hutchins "Love Is a Pie," 1952 'Early Andy Warhol Dust Jacket Design'

First edition, hardcover, published by New Directions, 1952 “Stories, confessions and plays-for-readings are baked together in this spiced vol-au-vent. Literary loop-the-loops that show off Mrs. Hutchins talents at their feathery, post-Freudian best.” The New York Times Maude Hutchins, a true polymath, a sculptor, painter, novelist, poet and aviatrix. Love is a Pie is a collection of Hutchins’ witty short stories and plays-for-reading, exploring themes of free will and death, innocence and religion, and of course, love. The cover is an early publication of an Andy Warhol design.