Penrod Jashber
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- VG+
- Seller
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Alliance, Ohio, United States
Item Price
€37.52€18.76
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About This Item
NY: Doubleday Doran & Co. . VG+. 1929. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition (Stated) bound in blue cloth with yellow lettering & dec orations. 12mo size, 321pp. A VG+ in VG dj. The book is clean and tigh t with lightly rubbed spine tips. Contents are fine. In VG dj that has several small chips to the head of the spine, a 3cm chip to the base of the spine and tiny chips at the upper corners. Jackets Yellow spine lettering is faded and more or less unreadable. Still an attractive c opy in the somewhat scarce dust jacket. .
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
- Dearly Departed Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 49729
- Title
- Penrod Jashber
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - VG+
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday Doran & Co.
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 1929
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction Novel;
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- VG
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- 12mo
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