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His Own People
by Booth Tarkington
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About This Item
New York: Grosset Dunlap, 1907. Romance of the upper classes, set in Italy and America; notable for illustrations by Lawrence Mazzanovich and F.R. Gruger, plus decorations by William St. John Harper. Some people believe that G&D were only reprint publishers, not true I proved it with a Zane Grey novel, this is also one of those FIRST EDITIONS released at the same time, this book was 1st printed in magazine form.Published October,1907. But this edition came in a BOX decorated with picture of Venice same as the inside covers,tissue guard. Box is very good or better with just corner wear and mild soiling,the book is FINE as issued,unread tightness.Green cloth and black lettering.Only one other BOXED issue available, no DJs on any printed copy! . First Edition. Cloth. Fine/None as Issued. Illus. by Check Description.
Synopsis
From the book:The glass-domed "palm-room" of the Grand Conti-nental Hotel Magnifique in Rome is of vasty heights and distances, filled with a mellow green light which filters down languidly through the upper foliage of tall palms, so that the two hundred people who may be refreshing or displaying themselves there at the tea-hour have something the look of under-water creatures playing upon the sea-bed. They appear, however, to be unaware of their condition; even the ladies, most like anemones of that gay assembly, do not seem to know it; and when the Hungarian band (crustacean-like in costume, and therefore well within the picture) has sheathed its flying tentacles and withdrawn by dim processes, the tea-drinkers all float out through the doors, instead of bubbling up and away through the filmy roof. In truth, some such exit as that was imagined for them by a young man who remained in the aquarium after they had all gone, late one afternoon of last winter. They had been marvelous enough, and to him could have seemed little more so had they made such a departure. He could almost have gone that way himself, so charged was he with the uplift of his belief that, in spite of the brilliant strangeness of the hour just past, he had been no fish out of water.
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- Pulitzer Prize Books.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- p277
- Title
- His Own People
- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- Illustrator
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- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Grosset Dunlap
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1907
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pulitzer Prize Winning Author
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I am a private collector, mainly Pulitzer Prize winners, but I inherited 1000's of hardcovers and looking to sell them off. I will be relocating in the near future, and need to lighten the load.
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