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Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Publisher's pictorial blue mesh cloth (Johnson's first binding), lettered in white. Spine darkened, rubbing at head and tale of
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. viii unnumbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. [x], 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial blue mesh cloth (Johnson's first binding), lettered in white. Spine darkened, rubbing at head and tale of spine, closed tear to cloth at head of spine. First edition, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. viii unnumbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. [x], 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Tarkington's most famous book, a classic of boyhood. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to the publisher, "Gladly inscribed for Russell Doubleday by Booth Tarkington. April 9th 1914, Indianapolis." Russell Doubleday (1872-1949) was the brother of Frank Nelson Doubleday and served variously as advertising manager, vice-president, secretary and a director of the Doubleday publishing firm. Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 132-133; Russo & Sullivan, pp. 29-33
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
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 310877
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated by Gordon Grant. [x], 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Publisher's pictorial blue mesh cloth (Johnson's first binding), lettered in white. Spine darkened, rubbing at head and tale of
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. v
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- Children's Books | American | Booth Tarkington
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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