Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers
Washington, DC: The Associated Publishers, 1944.
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Hardcover. First edition. Illustrated by Lois Mailou Jones. Tall octavo. 167pp. Pictorial cloth boards. Tiny owner name on front fly and front flap else fine in near fine dustwrapper with three modest tears (and internal tape marks shadows visible only on the inside). Jacket art is also by Jones. An exceptionally uncommon book of poetry for children written by an African-American woman; only the second copy we've seen in jacket.
Item #424219
