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Penrod

by Tarkington, Booth

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  • very good
  • Hardcover
  • first
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Very Good/Very Good
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Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. First issue with "sence" for "sense" on p. 19 and with the Roman numeral "viii" present at end of contents page. Publisher's blue cloth, front board decoratively stamped in black and white, front board and spine lettered in white, in the original dust jacket. Cloth spine a bit toned and rubbed; light rubbing, soiling to boards. Minor occasional thumbsoiling in text. The sleeved dust jacket is clipped on all corners (price of $1.25 is present), has a lightly toned spine, some toning and soiling to the facing panels; a few tears (two lengthy ones on the base of the rear panel) and corresponding tape reinforcement on the verso.

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
Trilby & Co. Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
20020819
Title
Penrod
Author
Tarkington, Booth
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition
Publisher
Doubleday, Page & Company
Date Published
1914
Keywords
first edition

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About Trilby & Co. Books

Trilby & Co. Books is located in Northern California. The company was founded years ago by a Shetland Sheepdog named Trilby. Trilby's message to her family was brief and direct - the sale of books would increase disposable income and improve the quality of provisions in her food dish. My name is McTavish (picture above). I am the current CEO of this company, and I approve of her message. Oh, by the way, my speciality is literature, with an emphasis on first editions and signed books.

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First Edition
In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
Cloth
"Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
Spine
The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
Verso
The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
Jacket
Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
Rubbing
Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.

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