Price: US$9.97 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Red hardback with gilt insignia on cover, clean text, tight binding. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was one of the most popular writers of the early 20th Century, who first achieved acclaim with his historical romance "Monsieur Beaucaire" (1900). ; Illustrations; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 99 pages
Seller: ABookLegacy, Mike and Carol Smith, N. Ft. Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Harper & Brothers Publishers. G/No Dustjacket. 1912. . Cloth. written as a playscript . Sm 8vo., 100 pp., spine faded, edges rubbed, page toning .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Beauty and The jacobin. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1912.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Moderately worn, rubbed, and soiled.
Seller: The Red Onion Bookshoppe, Hanover, IN, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: iv, 972 pp, 9 7/8" H. Black cloth with blind stamped decoration on boards and spine, gilt lettering on spine and front board (giving the title as "Harper's New Monthly Magazine"), plain light green endpapers. Colour, b&w and sepiatone illustrations, photographs throughout. Contents include: Adventuring Along the Upper Orinoco, by Caspar Whitney; Beauty and the Jacobin, by Booth Tarkington; The Black Pawn, by Norman Duncan; The Copy Cat, by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman; The Dollivers Caught Napping, by Margaret Cameron; The Fur-Harvesters, by F.E. Schoonover; Grim Grand Manan, by Holman Day; The Judgment House, by Gilbert Parker; Longs Pants, by James Oppenheim; Mark Twain. Some Chapters from an Extraordinary Life, by Albert Bigelow Paine; A Night and Day in Toledo, by W.D. Howells; The Night Call, by Henry Van Dyke; Odessa - The Portal of an Empire, by Sydney Adamson; The Pandemonium of Animals, by Clarence Day, Jr.; A Search for the Last Inca Capital, by Hiram Bingham; The Secret of the Big Trees, by Ellsworth Huntington; The Stolen Dream, by Richard Le Gallienne; Sun-Storms and the Earth, by E. Walter Mauder; Your United States, by Arnold Bennett, etc. etc. Poems by Mary Eleanor Roberts, Richard Le Gallienne, Ellen Glasgow, Louise Collier Wilcox, John Hall Wheelock, et al. This six month run of the magazine has been bound without covers & advertisements. Bump/creases at the top corner of pages 513 to 548 - migrates lightly into several adjacent pages, a 1" fore-edge tear to pages 803/804 and an illustration page opposite page 916 - both archivally taped, the top edge of pages 873 to 892 are slightly rough from trimming, various pages have some soft wrinkling due to handling, colour illustration opposite page 398 has several very small areas of surface paper loss whhich are glued to page 398, small piece of cloth missing at the top edge of the rear board, very light edge wear, light wrinkling at the top of the spine, shallow dent on the front board/hinge near top of hinge, two small dents at the bottom of the front edge of the spine, scattered light marks on the front board due to light colour fading to cloth.
Seller: Capricorn Books, Oakville, ON, Canada