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Penrod: Inscribed and signed bu author. Association copy
by Tarkington, Booth; Grant, Gordon (illustrations)
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/fair
- Seller
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Stone Mountain, Georgia, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1914. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/fair. Octavo. First Edition, with all points. Publisher's light blue mesh cloth, titles and illustration on upper board and spine, spine titles a bit rubbed out, spine tips and corners gently rubbed, but generally a bright, sharp copy; the scarce and fragile jacket is soiled with a few chips, creases, short tears, enclosed in a custom cloth sheath with a gilt-embossed morrocco spine label. With a former bookseller description laid in. Inscribed on the FFEP, "Gladly inscribed for Mr. Slocum, Booth Tarkington." Myles Standish Slocum (1887-1956) was a noted book collector, descended directly from Myles Standish on one side and from John Carter Brown on the other.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Americana Books ABAA
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 27663
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth; Grant, Gordon (illustrations)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Co
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1914
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Americana Books ABAA
Biblio member since 2009
Stone Mountain, Georgia
About Americana Books ABAA
Americana Books in business since 1993 specializing in American History and Americana. Member ABAA ( Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America)
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- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- FFEP
- A common abbreviation for Front Free End Paper. Generally, it is the first page of a book and is part of a single sheet that...
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Inscribed
- When a book is described as being inscribed, it indicates that a short note written by the author or a previous owner has been...
- 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....
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