Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Fair/No Jacket
- Seller
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Concord, California, United States
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About This Item
Scribners, NY, 1920. Fair/No Jacket. Gordon Grant. Octavo, hardcover, Sun on spine, edgewear and rubs. Fair. Interior has marks on endpapers, and hinges broken else good reading copy. No dj. Early edition. 345 pp. Tarkington, a Gentleman from Indiana, wrote this book in 1913.
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
- bookwitch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 28801
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Illustrator
- Gordon Grant
- Book Condition
- Used - Fair
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Scribners, NY, 1920
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- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Reading Copy
- Indicates a book that is perfectly serviceable for reading. It may have a defect or damage. As such, reading copy is not a...
- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- 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....