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. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a few modest chips at the spine ends and one on the top of the front panel near the spine. Jacket art is also by Jones. An exceptionally uncommon title book of poetry for children written by an African-American woman; only the second we've seen in jacket.

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Item #424315 Gladiola Garden: Poems of Outdoors and Indoors for Second Grade Readers. Effie Lee NEWSOME.