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Penrod.: Illustrated by Gordon Grant.
by TARKINGTON, Booth
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- Hardcover
- first
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1914. First edition, first printing, first issue binding of meshed cloth, 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 this condition. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in white, vignette to front board in white and black depicting Penrod and his dog. With an early glassine jacket and housed in a blue cloth chemise and slipcase. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout. Extremities faintly rubbed, superficial crack to front inner hinge, small abrasion to front free endpaper; glassine lightly edge-chipped and with small closed tear and crease to one panel. A bright copy in excellent condition. 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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- Bookseller
- Peter Harrington
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 103465
- Title
- Penrod.
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Date Published
- 1914
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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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