Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Dustjacket
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Stanley, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1914. Book. Illus. by Gordon Grant, Illustrator. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing.. Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust jacket. Gordon Grant, Illustrator. First Edition (not the first state; this book has "sense" spelled correctly on pg. 19). 1914 on title page and on copyright page. Blue ribbed cloth boards are clean (very small faint spot to rear board, smaller than a pea). Lettering and illustration is unchipped. Tiny spots of wear-through to lower spine corners, two very tiny tears at top spine cloth edge. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slightly yellowed). Previous owner name/address neatly penned on rear fixed endpaper. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp..
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
- Old Scrolls Book Shop - Biblio
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020078
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Illustrator
- Gordon Grant, Illustrator
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dustjacket
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing.
- Publisher
- Doubleday Page & Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1914
- Keywords
- CHILDREN'S FICTION NOVEL BOOTH TARKINGTON PENROD ANTIQUARIAN
- Bookseller catalogs
- Antiquarian; Children's;
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