Search Results: mirthful haven by booth tarkington

Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday, Doran & Company, inc., 1930.. Hard Cover. 4 p. l., 319 p. 21 cm. "First edition." A serious novel of manners inspired by his many summers in Kennebunkport, Maine. This copy has a Kennebunkport bookseller's sticker. Russo, D.R. Tarkington, p. 91-92. Stock# 40,321. Vg/ no dj.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good+. No DJ.. First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, light dust staining to top of textblock, minor non-penetrating moisture stain at top of textblock, front joint professionally repaired, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, white ink lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 319pp.

Doubleday. Collectible - Good/No Dust Wrapper. 1930. First Edition. Hard Cover. (N44) .

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1930. Normal wear to book, front free endpaper has triangular piece cut off at top, previous owner rubber stamp on half-title page; otherwise internally nice. A novel. Signed by author on the second half-title page.. Signed by Author. Reprint. Hard Cover. Good Plus/No Jacket.

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., 1930 IN GOOD CONDITION. WARMLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIFE, SUSANAH on the half-title page. 319pp, bound in original blue cloth, with illustrated endpapers, binding and hinges tight. Covers soiled, spine darkened, occasional interior foxing.

New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930. [Modern literature] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author to half-title; 'To John Sebastian Booth | From the Floats known | in Mirthful Haven as | "Pelfers" | June, 1935.' Gifted to John Booth on behalf of Tarkington's literary assistant Elizabeth Trotter Jr. Publisher's blue cloth with bird motif and titles blocked in white to upper board and spine. Blue, decorative endpapers matching bird motif on cover. Leaves lightly toned. Gutter is visible in a few places. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf, leaving a small mark to paste-down. Spotting and toning to edges, mostly top. Toning to spine. With rubbing to board extremities and some fraying to headcap. Very good. Booth Tarkington is one of few novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. He contributed heavily to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, a cultural boom in the early 20th century wherein most of North America's best art all seemed to… Read More

Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1930. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Erasure to the illustrated front endpaper, bottom corners bumped, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author at a later date. Moderately uncommon title, scarce signed.

Stated first edition. Mild discoloration on cover and spine, no jacket. Otherwise pristine edition and very readable.

Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1930. First edition.. Hardcover. Fine. Doubleday Doran. Fine+. 1930. Marked First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth cover with white lettering and birds has light wear to corners and caps. Aqua and white pictorial endpapers are pristine and are both intact at the hinge. Previous Owners Inscription on inside aqua page. Book looks almost new with only slight wear. A very collectible first edition book. Hardcover, 8vo-over 7?"-9?" Tall AB62