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Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & company, 1921.

Price: US$13.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Foxing is present on one or more pages. Some pages are falling out. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.

Seller: Library House Internet Sales, Grand Rapids, OH, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 1921.

Price: US$15.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition/Second State, with "I Can't see why you don't " on line 14 of page 419. Bound in light brick-colored with black titles on spine and cover. Very good with some light edgewear to extremities, inner hinge starting with webbing showing. Previous owner's inscription, dated 1922 on ffep, bookplate on pastedown. Vintage Fiction ; 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall; 434 pages

Seller: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth,. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, NY, 1921.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 434 pp. No dustjacket. Red cloth. Cover cracked inside back but pages tight. Library stamps endpapers, title pg. Small scratched lines top corner front cover; possibly from price sticker. Captioned b/w illustrated frontis piece, throughout. Fore edge slightly stained, but contents very good. Small 8vo

Seller: Abstract Books, Indianapolis, IN, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth; [Pulitzer Prize Winners];. Alice Adams (First Edition). Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921.

Price: US$49.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING, SECOND ISSUE with 1921 date on title page and no later printings mentioned but with error corrected on page 419. Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Good.Hinges cracked else tight binding; a small stain on front endpaper; a little foxing else clean pages; a bit of a spine slant; small hole rubbed in on edge of spine; moderate wear; lacking the rare dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize Winner. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS.

Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, New York, 1921.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: No d-j. Light wear to spine. Top and bottom edges slightly soiled. First few pages have minor separation from inner hinge.

Seller: Encanto Books, Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1921.

Price: US$110.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1921 - Hardcover, no Dust Jacket. First Edition, First State. Pg. 419 error, "you why". Book is in Good condition with wear and rubbing to edges, covers and folds. Small spots of cloth tears to edges. Soiling and wear to page edges. Writing in pencil and ink on FFEP. Busted binding to front and back endpapers. Disoloration to pages due to age. AL SKU-220225 Rare

Seller: Clovis Book Barn, Clovis, CA, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth.. Alice Adams.. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, 1921.

Price: US$125.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Printing, second issue with "why you" corrected on page 419. A solid Very Good copyt in brown cloth stamped in black, slightly cocked, edges of boards and spine-ends gently rubbed (with no fraying). No dustwrapper. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked. Slight foxing to verso of half-title leaf and rear of frontis leaf. Illustrations by Arthur William Brown. 434pp. Pulitzer Prize fiction in 1922. Q06638

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Harlequin and Columbine. Doubleday, Page, & Company, New York, 1921.

Price: US$150.15 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: small xmas 1921 gift card laid down on front free fly. well preserved 98 year old book and dj. the fun book that followed alice adams.

Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921.

Price: US$175.95 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Interior is clean & text unmarked. Binding is tight, but illustration p138 partially torn out & with gutters torn. Comment or name on reverse of frontis. Hardcover has brown cloth boards with black lettering, but no DJ. Cloth worn through at points, writing and dirt on page-edges with some foxing to interior. 1921, copyright year, stated on title page. Frontis & 3 b/w inserted plates by Arthur William Brown. The first printing of the first edition with uncorrected "___you why don't wear more colour" on page 419. Pulitzer Prize winner 1922. Made into a movie 1935 starring Katherinr Hepburn, Fred MacMurray & Fred Stone. Directed by George Stevens.

Seller: Bargain Finders of Colorado, Simla, CO, U.S.A.

Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, NY, 1921.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: "Alice Adams" by Booth Tarkington. First edition, first printing, first state with the following issue points: First edition has 1921 on both the title page and the copyright page with no other printing stated. There is a first state of the first printing where the words "you" and "why" are transposed on page 419, line 14. It reads "I can't see you why don't wear more colour,". Published by Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1921. Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Novel (Fiction). The book measures 5" x 7.75", 434 pages. The book is in very good minus to good plus condition. The boards are well preserved with gently bumped corners. Sunning and soiling to the spine. The front board is slightly cocked. Foxing to the fore-edges, endsheets, and throughout the textblock. Pencil notation on front endpaper. The hinges are cracked with the binding starting. Moisture stains to the top corner of the text on pages 427-34. The textblock is unmarked and complete. Please view the many other rare titles available for purchase at our store. We are always interested in purchasing individual or collections of fine books. Inventory #(Pul-17).

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. ALICE ADAMS. Doubleday, Page & Co., NEW YORK, 1921.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition, first state with publishing dates on title page and copyright page matching, "you" and "why" transposed on page 419, line 14. A sturdy clean copy in rust-colored boards, glossy plates and frontis. Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize and basis for the film starring Katherine Hepburn and Fred McMurray. Book is covered in a facsimile jacket.

Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.

Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1921.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Tarkington's second Pulitzer-Prize winning novel, in addition to The Magnificent Ambersons in 1918. First issue with "you why" on page 419. Burnt orange cloth, slight spine lean. Nice tight binding, although there is a 3/4 inch tear to the top of the rear endpaper, but no separation. Light foxing to first few pages. Light wear to head and heel of spine and lower corners, just a touch on edge of rear board. Provided with a fine professionally printed facsimile of the first issue dust jacket with the drawing of Tarkington on the rear panel.

Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday Page & Co., NY, 1921.

Price: US$350.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Hardcover, FIRST EDITION, with correct first issue points. Burnt Orange covers with black lettering . Inner hinge is cracked beteween FEP and half title page . Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction in 1922.

Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, 1921.

Price: US$375.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Second state with "why you" in proper sequence on page 419. Laid in is a clipped piece of paper, SIGNED by Booth Tarkington. The volume is edge rubbed, bumped at the spine ends and corners, has some soiling to front panel, an ink name on the front endpaper, and a picture of Booth Tarkington pasted to the front pastedown. Comes with a fine, mylar sleeved, facsimile dust jacket. Winner of the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.

Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & Co, 1921.

Price: US$400.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1921. 1st Ed. hardcover. Very Good. 8vo, orange cloth binding with black lettering, edges foxed, 1st Ed, 1st state, (McBride, p 419 line 14), a novel, 434 pages" .

Seller: Stone Soup Books, Camden, ME, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1921.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: Original brown cloth, front inner hinge cracked; very good. First printing with error on page 419. Inscribed by Tarkington shortly before his death in 1946. Winner of a Pulitzer Prize and the source of two films.

Seller: Thomas A. Goldwasser Rare Books (ABAA), CHESTER, CT, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N. Y., 1921.

Price: US$795.79 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: states 1921 at foot of title page. this is consistant with notation at midpoint of dj spine stating 3rd edition. book solid very good. dj price clipped. photos immediately available. non-authorial gift inscription on front free fly. solid copy free of foxing. handsome square book with nice very good dj. PLEASE REQUEST PHOTOS. WILL BE SENT PROMPTLY.

Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.

Booth Tarkington. ALICE ADAMS. Doubleday, Page & Co, Garden City, 1921.

Price: US$850.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition 1st printing of perhaps the most important novel by the Indiana author. Lacks front free endpaper, else a fine hardcover book in a very good, second state dustjacket with the "Unanimous!" tag on the back panel. The story of a social-climbing young woman, Alice Adams won the 1922 Pulitzer Prize for Literature.

Seller: Kubik Fine Books Ltd., ABAA, Dayton, OH, U.S.A.

Booth Tarkington. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City New York, 1921.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First Edition Early Printing (likely 7th printing) with the year 1922 on the title page. Scarce original dust jacket indicates '7th Edition' on the spine. $1.75 price intact. The front panel states "This Novel won the PULITZER PRIZE for the BEST AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE YEAR". Same jacket art as the first issue, but the rear panel and the rear flap have different text. The jacket is in good condition minor chipping and creasing to the extremities, more-so to the top of the spine. There is a large 3"-4" vertical tear that runs along the right side of the spine from the top of the jacket. This tear was mended with a large piece of clear tape. The book is in Very good overall condition. There is a gift inscription on the front end paper from Christmas 1922 "To my sister Hazel M. Fletcher, From your brother Worth Albert Fletcher. There is also a bookseller's stamp from Nicholson's Book Shop in Richmond, Indiana. Spotting to the edges of the text block. Unfortunately the book has a strong musty odor.

Seller: Ernestoic Books, Clarence, NY, U.S.A.

TARKINGTON, Booth. Alice Adams. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1921.

Price: US$2000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition, later state with page 419 corrected. A little foxing on the endpapers and a small crease on the front fly, else about fine in about fine dustwrapper with "3rd Edition" on the spine. The fourth book to win the Pulitzer Prize, and Tarkington's second (making him the first author to win the prize twice). Basis for the 1935 George Stevens film featuring Katharine Hepburn and Fred MacMurray, as well as a 1923 silent film. Very uncommon early edition.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.