Penrod.
by TARKINGTON, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Tiny bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; else a near fine copy with a little rubbing to the bottom of the spine in a bri
- Seller
-
Rochester, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Garden City:: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1914.. First edition, first issue.. publisher's decorated blue cloth in dust jacket and quarter morocco slipcase (but lacking a chemise).. Tiny bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; else a near fine copy with a little rubbing to the bottom of the spine in a bright, sharp, unworn dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at the bottom of the backstrip. A beautiful copy.. 8vo,. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. The Bradley Martin copy, with printed slip laid in.
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
- Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 67065
- Title
- Penrod.
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's decorated blue cloth in dust jacket and quarter morocco slipcase (but lacking a chemise).
- Book Condition
- Used - Tiny bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; else a near fine copy with a little rubbing to the bottom of the spine in a bri
- Edition
- First edition, first issue.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Place of Publication
- Garden City:
- Date Published
- 1914.
- Pages
- 345 [1] pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Biblio member since 2005
Rochester, New York
About Jeffrey H. Marks Rare Books
Specializing in modern first editions since 1978. Fine and rare books in all fields.
Glossary
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- First Edition
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- Jacket
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- 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....
- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Cloth
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