The phrase "a little volume" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a small amount of written material, such as a book or pamphlet.
Example: "She published a little volume of poetry that captured the essence of her experiences."
Alternatives: "a small book" or "a brief work".
I've written a little volume on sex, with advice on impotence, oral sex, sex addiction, infidelity and other issues.
Phelps collected his thoughts on the subject -- many adapted straight from Browning -- in "Music," a little volume published in 1930.
His dozen-plus albums under various names share the same claustrophobic playing, give or take a little volume or some extra instruments; his gigs are usually reverent affairs.
Description of the lodge, also tells about a little volume, bound in birch, a copy of which will be found in each guestroom.
GIVE IT A SOFT, RELAXED CURL -- Stick-straight strands also add weight to the picture, while a little volume and wave lighten it up.
A perm might have added a little volume up there, but my mother was staunchly against it and impossible to break.
This is a wonderful little volume veiled in a dowdy jacket and a dreary title.
Regional Recipes for the World's Favorite Chile-Cheese Dip," is a fascinating little volume, as much a cultural history of the state of Texas as a collection of recipes, dedicated to showing that queso is not nearly as simple as one might think.
My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student By Rebekah Nathan Cornell University Press; hardcover A MINOR brush fire flared through academe earlier this semester over a slim little volume called "My Freshman Year: What a Professor Learned by Becoming a Student".
John Hollander, the renowned poet who died at 83 on Aug. 17, wrote of a "dreadful little volume" called "Howl," for a 1957 issue of Partisan Review, saying that it "continues, sponging on one's toleration, for pages and pages".
His instructional book Cricket for Schoolboys (1965) was a thoughtful little volume in which, with an authority given to very few, he was critical of the Australian captain Richie Benaud for stationing his slip fielders wide apart.
