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Penrod Jashber; Illustrations by Gordon Grant
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- near fine
- first
- Condition
- Near fine/very good
- Seller
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Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
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About This Item
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth. Near fine/very good. First edition of Penrod Jashber by Booth Tarkington, in a scarce first state dust jacket.. Octavo, x, 321pp. Blue cloth, title in yellow on spine. Stated "First Edition" on copyright page. Solid text block, light toning to covers and endpapers, a near fine example. In the publisher's first state dust jacket, $2.00 retail price on front flap, light soiling to panels, sunning to spine, front joint beginning to separate. Illustrations remain vibrant. A very good example of a scarce dust jacket. At head of title: The New Penrod Book.
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
- The First Edition Rare Books, LLC
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 12817
- Title
- Penrod Jashber; Illustrations by Gordon Grant
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Illustrator
- First edition of Penrod Jashber by Booth Tarkington, in a scarce first state dust jacket.
- Format/Binding
- Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Near fine
- Jacket Condition
- very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Booth Tarkington first edition, Booth Tarkington signed, Penrod trilogy, Penrod first edition, Penrod and Sam, Penrod Jashber first edition, The Magnificent Ambersons Tarkington, Alice Adams Tarkington
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