Red Jungle Boy by Elizabeth K Steen - 1937

Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1937. Hardcover. Acceptable. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

New York:: Harcourt, Brace & Company, 1937.. Hardbound . BINDING/CONDITION: library binding; red cloth with black text and art; this is an EX-LIBRARY copy with all the usual markings, Fair condition; no dust jacket. A sturdy reading copy.. about 9 inches square . Light green endpapers. Description: Illustrated with three-color art by the author. A tale -- based on the author's own knowledge of life in the South American jungles -- of a ten year old boy who goes deep into the jungle looking for honey. He forgets how his father always marks his trail, and so gets lost. This is the story of how he escapes the dangers of the jungle and finds his way back to the river and his family. Author Elizabeth K Steen (1886-1938) was an explorer and anthropologist who traveled in South America. She was the first white woman to enter the Matto Grosso in Brazil. She died not long after her second expedition was completed and this book was published.

New York, New York, U.S.A: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Hardcover. Fair/No Jacket. 9" x 9. Steen, Elizabeth K. FAIR /NO DUST JACKET. Former library book. Book has been rebound in hardcover library binding. [12], 82, [6] pp. Text unmarked except for usual library treatments. Minor soiling. Illustrated with a full page colored drawing by the author at each opening. Red cloth library rebinding with graphic illustration of birds in dark brown at front, lettered in tan at front and spine, boards lightly soiled, corners bumped, spine top and tail rubbed. Joints and hinges good, binding firm. With an introduction by Franz Boas.

Good++, Good Harcourt, Brace and Company 1937 square 4TO, 83 pages, Color Illus, Hardcover Hardcover in dust jacket. Rust cloth binding with title in orange on front board and on spine. Worn at corners and spine ends. Very slight bow. Monkey illustrated endpapers show light soil. Title, text, illustrated pages are clean. Beautiful full page illustrations done in khaki, black, rust and green by the author. Illustrated dust jacket is chipped at all edges, corners and spine ends, with two inch piece missing at outer front corner, partially removing the O and Y in the title word BOY. Light soil. Looks better in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937. Edition Not Stated . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Steen, Elizabeth K.. Blind stamp on title page. Red boards, black side exterior pages.