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PENROD JASHBER
by Booth Tarkington
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good/very good
- Seller
-
Blue Hill, Maine, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Co., 1929. first edition as stated. Hardcover. Very good/very good. 6 x 8 in. Blue cloth boards with yellow titles. Stated first edition. Condition is VERY GOOD ; covers have some very faint spots, minimal shelf wear. Spine a touch dented. Binding tight. Small tear to ffep and a child's name written on the verso. Text otherwise clean and bright. DJ is VERY GOOD ; not clipped ($2.00) overall a touch sunned but clean. Spine has some wear and surface scrapes. Spine ends chipped. In a mylar wrapper. Fic. RGR.
Synopsis
Penrod Jashber is the third in a series of collections of sketches by Booth Tarkington about the adventures of Penrod Schofield, an 11-year-old middle-class boy in a small city in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States. Published in 1929, it was preceded by Penrod in 1914 and Penrod and Sam in 1916. The three books were published together as one volume, Penrod: His Complete Story, in 1931.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Andre Strong Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49713
- Title
- PENROD JASHBER
- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first edition as stated
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Andre Strong Bookseller
Biblio member since 2008
Blue Hill, Maine
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Glossary
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- 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...
- 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....
- Shelf Wear
- Shelf wear (shelfwear) describes damage caused over time to a book by placing and removing a book from a shelf. This damage is...
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Sunned
- Damage done to a book cover or dust jacket caused by exposure to direct sunlight. Very strong fluorescent light can cause slight...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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