Tarnish: The True Story of a Lion Club.
Chicago: Wilcox & Follett Co., [1944]. Hardcover. Illustrations by Arthur August Jansson. Small 4to. Pictorial paper over boards, pictorial dust jacket. 59pp. Numerous illustrations, pictorial endpapers. Very good/very good. Bit of mild edgewear; 1945 nonauthorial gift inscription on front flyleaf. Item #40212
A tight, quite attractive first edition of this young adult tale. Johnson (1894-1953) and husband Martin were well-known adventurers and documentary filmmakers, and she also penned the bestselling "I Married Adventure" (1940). Rather uncommon.
Price: $65.00
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