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Penrod (Signed First Printing)
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Bloomington, Indiana, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company. Near Fine. 1914. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very slight rubbing to cover corners, one-inch tear to List of Illustrations page. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, no other defects. A beautiful copy. This is the first issue, second state, with misspelled "sence" on page 19 (Russo and Sullivan, p. 29) . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author on the first endpaper: "Gladly inscribed for Mr. J. Christian Bay, by Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, December 22." . Jens Christian Bay was a Danish immigrant who became an authority on the history of the American Midwest and other specializations, while serving as librarian with the Library of Congress, University of Chicago, and for twenty years, the John Crerar Library, where he was chief librarian. He was a noted bookman and bibliophile who authored nearly 30 works. A highly collectible, unique copy of a classic. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 345 pages. Signed by Author. F2 .
Synopsis
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the trials and misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to Tom Sawyer. Penrod establishes the characters and the relationships between them who go on to appear in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929).
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- Bookseller
- Sweet Beagle Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 32274
- Title
- Penrod (Signed First Printing)
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Edition
- 1st Edition. 1st Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Children's Classic
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Bloomington, Indiana
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- Second State
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