Penrod.
by TARKINGTON, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown; else a very near fine copy with slight rubbing to the bottom edge; in a sharp, b
- Seller
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Rochester, New York, United States
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About This Item
Garden City:: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1914.. First edition, first state.. publisher's decorated blue cloth in dust jacket and custom slipcase.. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown; else a very near fine copy with slight rubbing to the bottom edge; in a sharp, bright, unchipped jacket with a tiny closed tear to the bottom of the backstrip.. 8vo,. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Russo & Sullivan, p. 29. The H. Bradley Martin copy.
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 #
- 65953
- Title
- Penrod.
- Author
- TARKINGTON, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Publisher's decorated blue cloth in dust jacket and custom slipcase.
- Book Condition
- Used - Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown; else a very near fine copy with slight rubbing to the bottom edge; in a sharp, b
- Edition
- First edition, first state.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company,
- Place of Publication
- Garden City:
- Date Published
- 1914.
- Pages
- 345 [1] pp.
- Size
- 8vo,
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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.
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