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Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
- Seller
-
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; mixed issue of first edition with "sence" on pg. 19, but no vii at end of contents page; [x], 345pp. VG-/G+ hardcover in green linen dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very light wear to edges of blue cloth boards, light soil smudge on front board, minor toning to spine; stamped white titling/decoration on front board and spine remains bold illustrations and text also very good; bookseller's tag (H.W. Fisher & Co. of Philadelphia) on rear paste-down. Green linen dust jacket (not issued with book) is lightly toned over spine, leather title tag is chipped, gilt titling and "First Issue 1914" at foot a little dulled but otherwise clearly legible. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Synopsis
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the trials and misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to Tom Sawyer. Penrod establishes the characters and the relationships between them who go on to appear in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929).
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Details
- Bookseller
- The Book House in Dinkytown
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 277729
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1914-01-01
- Weight
- 1.13 lbs
Terms of Sale
The Book House in Dinkytown
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About the Seller
The Book House in Dinkytown
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Minneapolis, Minnesota
About The Book House in Dinkytown
Used books bought and sold, classics and collectibles in all fields. In Dinkytown since 1976.
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- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
- Paste-down
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- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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