60 year old Rex Pebble inadvertently discovers that the fountain of youth happens to be in his back yard swimming pool. A magical statue of a nymph by the name of Baggage, an ornamental pool decoration, has playfully endowed the Pebble swimming pool with the power to reverse the aging process. Typical Thorne Smith fun ensues when Pebble, his wife, and his mistress take a dip and take 20 years off their lives. One of the funniest scenes concerns a book dealer wanting to display his old and rare to Pebble's unresponsive mistress. The Ron Howard movie Cocoon borrowed the theme from the Glorious Pool with many of the same humourous results. The Glorious Pool, published in 1935 after Thorne Smith's death was completed by his wife, Celia. This is the last novel that Smith had a direct part in writing.
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Hardback Editions
1959 : Hardback
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January 1954 : Hardback
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1952 : Hardback
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1951 : Hardback
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1950 : Hardback
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1948 : Hardback
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January 1944 : Hardback
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January 1935 : Hardback
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January 1934 : Hardback
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Paperback Editions
September 2009 : Paperback
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July 2003 : Paperback
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January 1963 : Paperback
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1962 : Paperback
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1955 : Mass Market Paperback
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1954 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1953 : Paperback
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January 1948 : Paperback
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January 1947 : Paperback
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January 1946 : Mass Market Paperback
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January 1934 : Paperback
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1962 : Unknown
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1935 : Unknown
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January 1934 : Spiral-bound
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