THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANAPOLIS: A Treasury of Booth Tarkington
by Booth Tarkington, Edited by John Beecroft
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Mena, Arkansas, United States
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About This Item
New York : Doubleday & Company, inc., 1957 Book. Illus. by John Alan Maxwell. Near Fine. Hardcover. Book Club Edition. NF/VG Book Club Edition Near Fine condition teal boards, square and unmarked, with nearly no shelf wear, quite impeccable for a book this age. Black binding with teal and gilt titles. 732 crisp, unmarked pages.Beautiful full color and line drawing illustrations by John Alan Maxwell. Book springs shut, as though it has never been read. Dust Jacket in Very Good condition. Colored painting by John Alan Maxwell of a snowy lane at the beginning of the last century. Slight shelf wear, chipping at edges of spine and top of jacket. "Booth Tarkington wrote his very best stories about Indiana and the friends and neighbors he knew- as shown by his pulitzer prize winning novels [included here]." From the Editor, John Beecroft.
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- Seller
- Supercalifabulistic Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 000179
- Title
- THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANAPOLIS: A Treasury of Booth Tarkington
- Author
- Booth Tarkington, Edited by John Beecroft
- Illustrator
- John Alan Maxwell
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Book Club Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday & Company, inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1957
- Keywords
- Booth Tarkington, Hardcover, Novel, Collection, Trilogy, Vintage, Novel, John Beecroft, John Alan Maxwell, Illustrations, Book Club Edition, Indianapolis,
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Supercalifabulistic Books
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- Fine
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- Shelf Wear
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- Chipping
- A defect in which small pieces are missing from the edges; fraying or small pieces of paper missing the edge of a paperback, or...
- Spine
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