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Penrod.: Illustrated by Gordon Grant.
by TARKINGTON, Booth
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- Hardcover
- first
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1914. First issue binding First edition, first printing, in the first issue binding of meshed cloth, and the first state with p. viii numbered and the misprint "sence" p. 19, third line from bottom. Later copies were issued with ribbed cloth bindings. This is the first of three novels following the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, a Midwestern Tom Sawyer whom Tarkington modelled on his mischievous nephews. Scarce in the jacket. Included is a first edition copy of An Overwhelming Saturday: A "Penrod" Story (New York: International Magazine Company, 1913, original wrappers), a Penrod story issued separately and some months before the book and with slightly different text. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in white, vignette to front cover in white and black depicting Penrod and his dog. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout. A fine copy, in very good jacket, spine panel lightly soiled, minor chipping at extremities, without repair or restoration. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 132-3.
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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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 144308
- Title
- Penrod.
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Date Published
- 1914
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Peter Harrington
Biblio member since 2006
London
About Peter Harrington
Since its establishment, Peter Harrington has specialised in sourcing, selling and buying the finest quality original first editions, signed, rare and antiquarian books, fine bindings and library sets. Peter Harrington first began selling rare books from the Chelsea Antiques Market on London's King's Road. For the past twenty years the business has been run by Pom Harrington, Peter's son.
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- Chipping
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- Fine
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- Octavo
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- First State
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- Spine
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- Cloth
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- New
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- Vignette
- A decorative design or illustration placed at the beginning or end of a ...
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