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Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Blue meshed cloth (first binding). Fine
- 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, first state, with folio 'viii' and 'sence' on page 19, line 23. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue meshed cloth (first binding). Fine. First edition, first state, with folio 'viii' and 'sence' on page 19, line 23. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tarkington's most famous book, a classic of boyhood. 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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Details
- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 219865
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue meshed cloth (first binding). Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition, first state, with folio 'viii' and 'sence' on pag
- 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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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
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- First Edition
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- Folio
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- Fine
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