Gentle Julia / The Flirt (both Hoosier Edtions)(Two volumes)

NY: Doubleday, 1922. Hardcover_cloth. Good-Collectible. Both editions are 5.25"x7.5" in Maroon cloth, design blind-stamped on front, gilt lettering on spine. Gentle Julia has 375 numb. pgs. & The Flirt has 378 numb. pgs. Both have spine straight, bindings loose, pages tone. Not x-library, no DJs, PONs. The Flirt has bleeding inside back boards w/markings. Moderate edge weat to both w/fraying all around. Some pages are loose. Secure ship w/track #. GENTLE JULIA: "Why, mamma, he's my Very Ideal! I'd marry him tomorrow!" Mrs. Atwater paused in her darning, and let the stocking collapse flaccidly into the work-basket in her lap. "Not at barely thirteen, would you?" she said. "It seems to me you're just a shade too young to be marrying a man who's already got a wife and several children. Where did you pick up that 'I'd-marry-him-tomorrow,' Florence?" "Oh, I hear that everywhere!" returned the damsel, lightly. "Everybody says things like that. I heard Aunt Julia say it. I heard Kitty Silver say it." "About the King of Spain?" Mrs. Atwater inquired. "I don't know who they were saying it about," said Florence, "but they were saying it." Source: Publisher
THE FLIRT: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington has an amazingly deft touch with characterization, and the tense relationship between town flirt Cora Madison and her quieter sister Laura is so compelling that the story has been the basis for a number of filmed versions. As with Tarkington's later novel The Magnificent Ambersons, The Flirt is a thoroughly entertaining portrait of a dysfunctional but ultimately loving family. Source: Publisher.