Penrod Jashber
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Blue cloth stamped in yellow. Slightly cocked; Very Good+, in tape-repaired dust jacket missing spine panel. Bookplate of Joan W
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About This Item
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth stamped in yellow. Slightly cocked; Very Good+, in tape-repaired dust jacket missing spine panel. Bookplate of Joan Whitney. First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 1 vols. 8vo.
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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- Bookseller
- The Old Mill Bookshop
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 221246
- Title
- Penrod Jashber
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 1 vols. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Blue cloth stamped in yellow. Slightly cocked; Very Good+, in tape-repaired dust jacket missing spine panel. Bookplate of Joan W
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Keywords
- Children's Books | Booth Tarkington
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