first edition
1942 · Boston
by Diaman, Gertrude
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 226; pictorial color endpapers, 16 full-page illustrations by Cosgrave; previous owner's bookplate; near fine copy in original red cloth stamped in black, and a very good dust jacket with minor cracks at the extremities. An American woman living in Mexico City in the 1930's. Ten-year-old Ofelia lives nearby with her large family in utter poverty, but her practicality and optimism carries her through.
(Inventory #: 63902)