Search Results: Booth Tarkington from Great Expectations Rare Books

New York: Doubleday and McClure, 1899. Bound in original pictorial cloth with ear of corn facing upright on backstrip. Former owners name and small stamp inside front cover . First edition, first issue of authors' first book. Points: P. 245, line 12, last word "eye"; line 16, "so pretty." P. 291, line 7, reads "brainy bumps". P. 342, line 23, reads "brain of Zeus." Sligh t tear to upper spine along outer front joint, extending 1 1/2" from top. With clipped signature of Booth Tarkington, on card stock, laid-in. But for tear along out joint a Very good copy. Blanck p.48 9.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Mcclure, Phillips & Co., 1900. First edition, first issue of the authors second book. Small seal after last page of text measures 1/2" in diameter. Bound in the original red cloth, with gilt stamping on front board and spine. Illustrated with six plates by C.D. Williams. Cloth shows staining along outside joint of front board. Old marginal dampstain at bottom of first several leaves and again at gutter of rear inner hinge. Still a tight, sound copy of this Merle Johnson High Spot and looks better than description sounds. Two old clippings from Swann Auction Gallery catalogs, dated 1973 and 1975, [with price realized penciled in] tipped in at front endpaper. Blanck p. 489. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1902. Bound in original decorative green cloth stamped in white and gold. Illustrated with 7 full page plates. State of binding not kn own, as Blanck writes priority is in dispute. Ads list Monsieur Beaucaire on page 1 as "80th thousand", but do not list "70th thousand" on page 3, so that ads are a latter state. T.e.g. A fine, clean copy of Tarkington's third novel. Blanck p.489.. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Fine/No Jacket. Illus. by Henry Hutt. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.