Alice Adams

by Tarkington, Booth

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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921. This First Edition, First State printing of "Alice Adams" from 1921 is in Very Good condition, and a bonus facsimile movie tie-in dust jacket from a 1935 printing is in New condition. (Click on photo.) The book contains all the necessary points for the extremely rare First State, including the date, 1921, on both title page and copyright page, and more importantly, the uncorrected error on Page 419, Line 14, that states, "I can't see you why don't wear more colour," in which the "why" and "you" are wrongly transposed. In the second state and later printings, this error was corrected. (Potential buyers should email any bookseller who claims to be offering a First Edition, without stating this necessary point.) The book is bound in a reddish brown cloth with black title lettering on front panel and spine. The book has light spine-tip rubbing, one frayed corner, and a slight forward slant. The binding is tight and secure. There is minimal foxing on the endpapers and Half-Title page. There are no signatures from former owners. The pages are mainly clean and bright throughout, with a very small circular stain on the pages' verticle exterior edge. All four original full-page illustrations, including the frontis, by Arthur William Brown, are present. This is an ideal collectible of one of Tarkington's most loved novels. BONUS DUST JACKET: As a special bonus, I am including a facsimile of a dust jacket that was specifically created in 1935 for a Grosset & Dunlap reprint of Alice Adams as a tie-in to the movie version. This beautifully executed painting of Katharine Hepburn as Alice is far more attractive and rare than the original 1921 dust jacket that only shows the Adamses' house. Since both this Doubleday, Page First State Edition is the same size as the later G&D reprint, the jacket fits this First Printing book perfectly. I've placed the facsimile dust jacket into a Brodart protective sleeve. The book measures 5 1/4 by 7 11/16 inches and includes 434 pages. (You will not find this facsimile dust jacket being offered by any other seller online.) . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

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