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The Forest Pool
by Armer, Laura Adams
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Book is tight and clean. Gutters and margins around endpapers a little darkened. Cover is slightly darkened at about 1/8" deep a/Jacket is clean and crisp with 3/8" deep chips at top and bottom of spine. 1/4" scrape on front panel. One 2" horizontal closed
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Toledo, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
New York - Toronto: Longmans Green and Company, 1938. Stated First Edition. Orange cloth 4to stamped in green. Full color dust jacket. Book is tight and clean. Gutters and margins around endpapers a little darkened. Cover is slightly darkened at about 1/8" deep at the top and bottom edges. Overall, this is an amazingly beautiful copy./Jacket is clean and crisp with 3/8" deep chips at top and bottom of spine. 1/4" scrape on front panel. One 2" horizontal closed tear at the bottom of the front panel. A little creasing at top and bottom edges. And a little rubbing along the joints of jacket.. Author. The story of two little Mexican boys, Diego and Popo. Accompanied by their pet parrot, Polly, they seek the ancient tree-lizard, called the iguana, that lives in a pool deep in the green forest. 40 pp. with 8 beautiful full page color illustrations. These lovely tempera paintings have a quality of primitive art created by a very sophisticated artist. Laura Adams Armer won the Newbery Award for her 1931 book about Navajo life, Waterless Mountain. Each page of text has a small marginal page drawing of aboriginal art, all different and printed in different colors of ink. There are 20 of these charming little drawings in all. Illustrated endpapers printed in green. $2.00 price on dust jacket flap.
Reviews
On Nov 29 2004, Warwick Books said:
1938 book with astonishing illustrations inspired by the work of Diego Rivera.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Frogtown Books, Inc.
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10
- Title
- The Forest Pool
- Author
- Armer, Laura Adams
- Illustrator
- Author
- Format/Binding
- Orange cloth 4to stamped in green. Full color dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Book is tight and clean. Gutters and margins around endpapers a little darkened. Cover is slightly darkened at about 1/8" deep a
- Jacket Condition
- Jacket is clean and crisp with 3/8" deep chips at top and bottom of spine. 1/4" scrape on front panel. One 2" horizontal closed
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Stated First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Longmans Green and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York - Toronto
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Mexico
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Frogtown Books, Inc.
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Toledo, Ohio
About Frogtown Books, Inc.
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- First Edition
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
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