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The Glorious Pool: Available Copies

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.3

The Glorious Pool. Thorne Smith. Pocket. 1963. 240p. paperback, covers bumped/scuffed, binding tight, text clean--2.00

Good condition. (Literature, Humor) A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.28

Good owners name clean interior, cover has big black marker x on cover

#409. Illustrated by Herbert Roese. Very slight wear. Photos on request. Size: Mass Market

Cover suffers corner bumping, rubbing, and edge wear. Text has yellowed with age but remains tight in binding. No ownership or other markings. Size: 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall

Pocket Book #409, 1948, 11th Pocket printing, rare US fantasy gga vintage paperback, naughty novel about modern fountain of youth, decent copy, moderate wear but age toning to inside pages, so only VG-.

Text is in English. Size - H: 6.25', W: 4.25', D: .5' This item is Used and is listed as being in Very Good condition. Cover has some light edge wear and bumped corners. Binding is intact. Pages are clean, unmarked with minimal tanning. Lamination is coming loose of front edges. Still a good, sturdy copy. FF00000006936 Firefly sells new and used books through our store front. We try to add a detailed description to as many titles as possible. If you have questions regarding this title, please contact us. Photos available on request.

THE old gentleman with the resplendently starched cuffs moved into the room. In the kindly half light of the long, low apartment he stood poised like an ancient ramrod, worn and polished from long years of campaigning. About his person clung a pleasantly subtle suggestion of good soap and even better cigars. An expensive and thoroughly masculine smell.With meticulous care he began to remove his gloves, releasing each imprisoned finger as if the action were an independent and definitely unrelated operation, requiring individual attention.It was rather impressive, the way he took off his gloves that is, if one's nerves and patience were in good working condition. But the woman sitting in one corner of the huge divan had never been heavily endowed with patience, and at present her nerves were not so good. They were very bad nerves indeed."If you don't take those gloves off," she said, "I'll drag them off with my own two hands. Your fingers aren't made of china. Why do you wear them, anyway? They make me feel like sweating."

Reprint paperback ed. Very good condition, slight over all wear. Pocket #409.

An 18th print from the early 1960s of Pocket Books edition, # 6189, of a mid 1930s humorous novel. "The frankly naughty, hilarious story about a modern fountain of youth." GGA cover. Light edge wear to the covers. Tight binding. Mild spine lean. Moderate browning to the pages - mostly the edges. A very good copy.

1944. Fourteenth Edition. 297 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth covered boards. Pages are moderately tanned and foxed throughout, heavier at end-papers, paste-downs and text-block edges. Minor pencil marking to front free end-paper. Binding remains firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Further minor dust marking to both boards. Mild crushing to spine ends. Book has a slight forward lean.

Mass market paperback, later printing, 240 pages.

6189, very good -fine, crease, (FANTASY NOVEL), , paperback,

409, , very good +, (FANTASY NOVEL), , paperback,

409, , very good - fine, (FANTASY NOVEL), , paperback,

HELI8515 The Glorious Pool, Thorne Smith, Illustrator Herbert Roese, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1936, hc no dj, b&w, 292 pages, 7.75"x5.5" Small dots of stain on covers, small spot of abrasion on back cover, opening & closing spreads have yellow stains, otherwise almost new Ignore horizontal lines from scanner error

Dust cover missing. Nameplate on bottom left corner of front page. Very delicate. Pages yellowed but free of marks and folds.

New Reprinted 1959 Great Britain Jacket Design by Moyra Leatham

1948. 15th Edition. 297 pages. No dust jacket. Cream cloth. Mild brown staining to pages on occasion. Minimal foxing and tanning to endpapers and page edges. Mild wear and bumping to spine, board edges and corners, with soiling, staining and marking to boards. Minor sunning to spine and board edges.

Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less 0.85

Uncreased spine. Crease to the length of the front cover.

The Glorious Pool 0.62

Photograph available on request.

6189, near fine, (FANTASY NOVEL), , paperback,

409, , near fine, (FANTASY NOVEL), , paperback,

Faint reading creases to covers, clean and unmarked; a nice sound and bright copy. Pocket Book #409, printed in Sept. 1946. Cover states "Pocket Book No. 154, 935,723".

Pocket Books No.409, first paperback edition with wonderful cover art by Herbert Roese, written by the incomparable Thorne Smith; this copy is Vg+ with tiny corner scuffs, contents bright and unmarked.