Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
New York, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition. Cloth. Good. Grant, Gordon. 8vo. First edition, second state, with "sence" instead of "sense" on page 19 but page viii unnumbered. Light soilage and shelfwear to cloth binding. Picture on front board rubbed some but still clear. Very slight looseness to front hinge. Pages generally clean. Small tear by hinge edge of frontis.
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
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 000383
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Illustrator
- Grant, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- American Literature, Children's Literature
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- 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...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Second State
- used in book collecting to refer to a first edition, but after some change has been made in the printing, such as a correction,...