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PENROD by Tarkington, Booth:
Book Description
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.. Blue cloth, stamped in white, with pictorial inset. Frontis and illustrations by Gordon Grant. Spine ends and fore-tips lightly rubbed, offset to free endsheets from jacket flaps, shallow bleed from top-edge in upper margin of a few leaves, bookseller's label, but very good in somewhat darkened dust jacket with nicks and short tears at corners and front flap fold, some fraying at the head and toe of spine, and shallow discoloration along lower edge. Rather amateurish half calf slipcase. First edition, second state of the text (of three, with folio 'viii' omitted and the earlier reading, 'sence', at 19:23), first binding. With the author's signed presentation on the dedication leaf: "Inscribed, with pleasure, for Mr. B.R. Levinson. 23 November, 1937." RUSSO & SULLIVAN, pp.29-34.
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