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Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth, with some wear and soiling. VG, no dust jacket. Ex-library.; 781
Seller: Sleepy Hollow Books, Huntington, VT, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., Garden City, New York, 1928.
Price: US$3.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Stated First Edition. The blue boards with publisher's paste-on labels has rubbing and several very small dents, and light wear at the corners and edges, and at the head and tail of the spine. The interior is clean and tight, with only some tiny pen marks in a couple of places on the rear endpapers. 253 pgs.
Seller: Henschel Books, Bull Mountain, OR, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$4.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Condition is Very Good. Text pages are clean. Tight binding. Light edgewear to blue boards. Back cover has a few dark spots. 1928 hardcover. Stated First Edition. 253 pages.
Seller: Shady Grove Book Store, West Branch, MI, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. Doubleday, Doran Garden City: 1928., Garden City:, 1928.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth binding First Edition. Only just Good w moderate shlfwr & dull cvrs. Only just Good w moderate shlfwr & dull cvrs.
Seller: Biblioceros Books, Warrenville, IL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Jacket has light edge wear with a short tear on the back. Minor wrinkling to one corner on back.
Seller: Ahab Books, Glencoe, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, New York, U.S.A., 1928.
Price: US$5.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Blue boards with yellow title labels and black lettering, decorated endpapers, 253 pp. Mild edge wear, red "check" mark on top right corner of front free endpaper; previous owner's name (dated 1928) on verso, short tear on half-title page, text lightly age-toned otherwise unmarked, tight binding.
Seller: Bob's Book Journey, Austin, TX, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$5.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In blue cloth with yellow and black titling, 8vo, 253pp. gift insctiption to first blank page, light shelfwear. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran And Co., NY, 1928.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Description: Light Stain to Cover.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$6.50 + shipping
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket; Previous owner's name. Edges bumped; 253 pages
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler 1st Edition. Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Price: US$6.99 + shipping
Description: clean pages, tight binding, few
Seller: HGG Books, Slingerlands, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler Tarkington, Booth. Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Price: US$7.46 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1928, 1928.
Price: US$9.95 + shipping
Description: Hard Cover. Fair/Fair. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 253 p. Previous owner name to recto of ffep. Remains of reviews of book which had been glued to verso of ffep. Front hinge cracked. Spotting to covers, especially to spine cover. Insect damage to spine of DJ, including 3/4" hole at head. Novel.
Seller: Burm Booksellers, Beckley, WV, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. NY: Doubleday Doran, 1928. No jacket. Clean pages. Nice condition overall.
Seller: Singing Saw Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday Doran, NEW YORK, 1928.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Stated first edition. A bright, sturdy copy with owner's bookplate and a bit of webbing showing inside, in a facsimile of a very good plus dust jacket.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$11.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo; 253 pages; Very minor rubbing and wear to covers.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, New York, 1928.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Hard Cover. Fair/No Jacket. First Edition. Blue boardsedge worn, bumped at corners and rubbed, front hinge loose, first two pages watermarked, pages tanning but clean, colorful endpapers
Seller: BOOK'EM, LLC, Port Orchard, WA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG-/G. 253 pp. DJ quite sunned, lightly soiled, chipped, and water spotted. Large chips at spine ends, top corner, and bottom edge of front panel. Spine starting. Half title partially separated from binding. Pages sunned. Interior very clean. No marks. Brodart DJ.
Seller: Books to Die For, The Woodlands, TX, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., New York, 1928.
Price: US$12.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Very good+ in good jacket. Blue cloth and yellow title labels are bight, illustrated color endpapers, name lightly stamped on ffep. Jacket is darkened on spine and fore-edge, a few short edge tears, bottom half of back inside flap missing, now in protective plastic sleeve.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928.
Price: US$12.49 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo, 7 1/2" tall, 553 pages, decorative end papers, paper spine and front cover labels on blue cloth. A very good, clean, sturdy hard cover first edition overall with moderate shelf wear and rubbing to corner edges; hinges and binding solid, paper clean, just lightly yellowed. In a good dust jacket with small chips at the fore-tips and at ends of the back strip, some yellowing to the back strip, with the original price.
Seller: Avenue Victor Hugo Books, Newmarket, NH, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran, Garden city, NY, 1928.
Price: US$13.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 253. One hinge loose, cover little worn and soiled, good. A novel.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Price: US$13.05 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. Decorative end papers. Pasted down paper label for title on spine and front cover. Clean text and interior. Tight, square binding.
Seller: Genesee Books, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$13.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Slight separation to front hinge bottom and minor edgewear. Colors still vibrant with blue boards and black lettering against a back drop of gold. Decorated endpapers with images of flappers in high couture. One of the author's great books.
Seller: BIAbooks, Woodstock, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$13.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG/G+ in DJ (sh tears/tape repair to DJ; prev owner's marks). 8vo with DJ [ 10]+253pp Dust jacket supplied from another copy. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Vashon Island Books, Vashon, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good, Hardback, No Dust Jacket, DJ blurb pasted to back endpaper 253 pages
Seller: The Book House, Inc. - St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
BOOTH TARKINGTON. CLAIRE AMBLER. DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: GOOD SHAPE EXCEPT FOR FIRST INSIDE PAGE IS GONE-(NOT PTINTED ON) A SENSATIONAL NOVEL OF A FLAPPER AND HER INTERNAL CONFLICT WITH BEING HERSELF.
Seller: Smokey, York, NE, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, and Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: Decorative endpapers. Front and spine title pastedown. Jacket soiled and stained.
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB, Salisbury, CT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. doubleday Doran, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Previous owner name. Shallow chipping to spine ends of jacket.
Seller: Jay W. Nelson, Bookseller, IOBA, Austin, MN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth.. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good with slight fading to title label along spine. Bookplate on front pastedown. No prior owner markings. Lacking dust jacket. Light bumps to lower corners. Vintage department store label on inside rear cover. Slightly bumped lower corners. Usual age-toning to paper.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. CLaire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Co., New York, NY, U.S.A., 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book has prev. owner in ink. Dj has a large piece missing on the spine and wear elsewhere.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. N.Y:Doubleday Doran. 1928. Hardcover., 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: 1st. ed. v.g.-fine. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.
Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1928, New York, 1928.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good. First Edition.
Seller: Dr Jeremy Parrott, London, United Kingdom
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1928.
Price: US$17.27 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. A clean and bright fine copy in a NF dust jacket with the price of $2.50 intact on the front flap.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Description: Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Slight crack of front hinge at half title page (book is still tight). Blue boards with orange labels on front board and spine are bright and clean.The jacket spine is sunned, and there is a small chip at the head of the spine. A nice art deco style jacket, with a little general soiling. This was the first title published by the newly merged Doubleday, Doran. $2,50 price on front flap; no names or other marking in the book.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1928.
Price: US$18.62 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First printing. A clean and bright fine copy in a NF dust jacket with the price of $2.50 intact on the front flap.
Seller: AcornBooksNH, New Harbor, ME, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (1st) Smaller book, blue cloth with orange rectangle at top front with title and author, patch at spine top very fine, DJ color-illustrated paper, tear and nicks at edges, lightly browned on back. Fair DJ/Very Fine book.
Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., Garden City, N.y., 1928.
Price: US$19.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Attractive blue cloth boards with yellow block background for title and author on front board and spine. Yellow background on spine shows light chipping around extremities and is lightly soiled. Spine is worn at head but not frayed. Tight and square, still attractive copy. First edition stated on copyright page. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Timothy Norlen Bookseller, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, NY 1928, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: hardcover, first edition, very good condition in a good+ price clipped dust jacket, edgewear to the jacket, tape repair to jacket.
Seller: Casa Paloma Books, Green Valley, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Very clean bright blue cloth with spine and front board paper labels. Foredges and bottom edges uncut. Pictorial endpapers. Stamped phone number on front endpaper. Spine label has two tiny corners chipped. no jacket. near Fine condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran, NEW YORK, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A lovely, crisp, near-perfect copy in blue boards with yellow paper label on spine and front panel, and with illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket has mild soil with marvelous wraparound artwork depicting a flapper and her beaus. The story of the elusive and desirable Claire Ambler and the men who loved her.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Bookstore label, hinge beginning to crack else near fine in a very good plus price-clipped dustwrapper with a large chip on the foot.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 6 x 8 in. Cloth boards. Condition is VERY GOOD+ ; covers very clean, minimal shelf wear. Binding tight, text unmarked, DJ is VERY GOOD ; edges and spine mildly toned, a few chips. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First edition stated, near fine hardcover showing touch of wear including a tiny tear near top of front hinge, in near fine dust jacket (price at flap) showign light soil and tiny bit of edge wear. 253 pages with illustrated end papers. Good looking copy of this work from the notable American author of The Magnificent ambersons and other prize winning works. Near Fine in Near Fine Dust Jacket
Seller: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran and Co, New York, 1928.
Price: US$20.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original Cloth, Hardbound. Book Condition: Very Good . Dust Jacket Condition: Goodt in Mylar. Dust jacket has chips and several nicks and tears. Missing pieces at top and bottom of spne.First Edition (Stated). 8vo. 253 pages, Bright royal blue cloth with original orange spine and front cover label. Illustrated endpapers, age toned and marginal chips to jacket. name of original private owner inside cover. Indianapolis, Indiana author & playwright.Story of a beautiful but not too bright flapper. Basis for two early television productions. One on Robert Montgomery Presents in 1952 as "Claire Ambler" and again in 1962 as "The Loves of Claire Ambler" on The United States Steel Hour.
Seller: Riverside Books and Prints, Cold Spring, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc., Garden City, N. Y., 1928.
Price: US$21.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Ships same or next business day. Bookplate of noted collector, Rolland Comstock, on front paste-down endpaper. Text block is pulled away from spine head, normal edge and shelf wear, tiny tears on spine tail, tiny tear on tail edge of half-title page, spine partially cracked on full title page, small bumps on top corners, pages are tanned but clean. No dust jacket. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 253 pages
Seller: Good Books In The Woods, Spring, TX, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Garden City, N. Y., 1928.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound in blue buckram, with orange title labels on front panel and spine, sans DW; decorated end-papers; previous owners name and date penned on front paste down; 253pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 253p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Hardcover first edition - First printing. A later novel by this best-selling writer (who also won the Pulitzer Prize twice), a picture of a quintessional flapper of the 1920's. 253 pp. Blue and gold illustrated endpapers. Very near fine in blue cloth with printed gold labels on front and spine, lacking the dj, but remarkably bright.
Seller: Bookfever, IOBA (Volk & Iiams), Ione, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$22.50 + shipping
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. G/G. 1928. First Edition. Cloth w/DJ. 8vo., 253 pp., Dj lightly frayed; slight fold in front cover, cracked .
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$23.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description:
Seller: Pelican Bay Books, Anacortes, WA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928.
Price: US$23.95 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, no jacket, in Good condition, retired library copy with usual markings, some edge wear at the corners, text is clean and unmarked, a good reading copy,
Seller: Eatons Books and Crafts, Owatonna, MN, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Blue cloth with paper labels, pictorial dust jacket. 253pp. Decorative endpapers. Very good/very good. Jacket mildly edgeworn and the with spine a bit age toned. A tight, clean, handsome first edition of this novel from the prolific author of the Hoosier classic "Penrod." Notes the jacket: "In the words of Claire's young man, 'Here are kicks and thrills, and deep stuff, too'." Lovely copy.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED. Duodecimo [20 cm] American Japan vellum over boards. Top edge gilt; other edges rough-trimmed. Yellow, blue, and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. The extremities are a bit darkened and soiled, and the spine is rolled. The spine ends are bumped. Currie, p. 86. To commemorate the founding of Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, by the union of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Company this first volume over the new imprint has been autographed by the author and publisher. One in an edition of 500 copies. This copy is signed by Booth Tarkington and the publishers below the commemoration.
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA, Salt Lake City, UT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1928.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Near Fine book in VG dust jacket. Jacket has all corners slightly clipped, price of $2.50 is intact. Spine has shallow chipping at top edge, heavy sunning, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. H5
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Price: US$28.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Owner signature. Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket.
Seller: My Book Heaven, Alameda, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company,, Garden City, NJ, 1928.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City, N. Y. , Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1928. Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Very good copy in the cloth, with printed, title-labels. Slightest suggestion of separation of front board from the spine. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong.
Seller: Tome Raiders, Brentwood, TN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc., Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$34.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ and edges tanned and edgeworn and with light foxing. ; A very handsome and tight copy! ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 253 pages
Seller: Complete Traveller Antiquarian Bookstore, Westport, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: - Octavo, 7-7/8 inches high by 5-1/2 inches wide. Blue cloth with orange title labels on the front cover & the spine, in the original pictorial art deco dust wrapper depicting the young flapper with young men. There is a short tear to the bottom edge of the dust jacket's front panel with creases and tiny chips to the top edge of the jacket. The jacket's spine is darkened. 253 pages, with illustrated endpapers. The binding is lightly cracked opposite the half-title. Very good. First edition, first printing.
Seller: Blue Mountain Books & Manuscripts, Ltd., Cadyville, NY, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Booth Tarkington - Claire Ambler. Doubleday (1928). First edition. Hardcover. A Near Fine copy lacking dust wrapper. See image. Enclosed in archival quality mylar cover.
Seller: Savage Lotus Books, ATHENS, GA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Inc., 1928.
Price: US$36.52 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ has small edge chip and 1" perfectly closed tear, with spine sunned but title clear; else is vg in a Mylar cover. DJ is quite scarce.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Description: 253 pp. 8vo, original white Japan vellum with paper label on spine. First edition; one of 500 copies signed by the author and the publishers. Russo & Sullivan, p. 85. Some light soiling to the boards and rubbing to the joints; tight and sound.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, 1928.
Price: US$40.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Doubleday Doran,1928. First Edition, first printing. Hard Cover. No dust jacket. Cover has mild shelfwear with silght rubbing on the corners and edges. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is tight. Hinges are perfect. Not price-clipped. Not ex-library. Not remainder. Beautiful condition.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. Garden City - New York Doubleday Doran & Company 1928, 1928.
Price: US$41.88 + shipping
Description: 253 pp. with colored Endpapers, hardcover. First edition.- A limited edition to celebrate this, the first publication of Doubleday-Doran. SIGNED by the author as well as both publishers.- Cover dusty and a little bit stained.
Seller: Dieter Eckert, Bremen, Germany
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$43.75 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. 253; near fine in original blue cloth, printed paper cover and spine labels, near fine dust-jacket with a bit of light soiling and a few short, closed edge tears.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: 253 pp. 8vo, original blue cloth with prange printed paper labels in dust jacket. First edition. A bright, near fine copy in a very lightly soiled jacket with and few tiny chips and light edge wear.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Velum colored boards over cloth spine. The first publication of Doubleday Doran. One of 500 copies (unstated) signed by Booth Tarkington, George Doran, and F. R. Doubleday.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Co, Garden City, New York, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Jazz Age novel of a young flapper. Bright Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket with dime size abrasion to spine and spine mildly faded.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Co, Garden City, New York, 1928.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Jazz Age novel of a young flapper. Bright Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket some nicking to edges.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
Price: US$46.40 + shipping
Description: CLAIRE AMBLER, Doubleday, Doran, 1928, first edition, just about fine in a vg/vg+ knockout flappers pictorial dust-wrapper with some light wear and tear. The first publication of Doubleday-Doran.
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.59 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the cloth, with printed, title-labels. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 253 pages; Description: 5 p. L. , 253 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo.,253pp. Very pretty stated First Edition. Square, tight and clean throughout with no foxing. A touch of bumping to the spine ends and mild wear to edges and tips. Very bright and fresh. Very attractive unclipped dust-jacket, ($2.50), has some general edge-wear and rubbing. A couple of smallish pieces out from the rear panel and crown. Mild toning and soiling. Still sharp and looks a lot better than it sounds. A quite handsome collectable copy.
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books ABAA, IOBA, Manasquan, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Laid in is a slip of paper signed by Tarkington.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, NY, 1928.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated "First Edition" on the copyright page . VG / VG . No marks in or on this book. The DJ is not price clipped ($2.50) , some chipping to the spine ends, and some fading / aging to it , front hinge starting to loosen a bit at the title page.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, 1928.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Front hinge loose, else near fine in very good, price-clipped dustwrapper with some light soiling, tanning to the spine, and a few small nicks to the ends of the spine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Claire Ambler. Garden City, NY, Doubleday, Doran & Company, New York, NY, 1928.
Price: US$58.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bookplate on the front free end paper. Small amount of edge wear to the corners. Sunning. Satisfaction guaranteed.
Seller: Hollow n Hill Books, Yellville, AR, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: Blue cloth with black titles over an orange background on cover and spine. Name on front free endpapers, lightly worn spine ends and tips. A bright near fine copy in very good dustjacket with light chipping along the edges. ; Octavo.
Seller: Parigi Books, Vintage and Rare, Schenectady, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.00 + shipping
Description: Very good copy in the cloth, with printed, title-labels. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 253 pages; Description: 5 p. L. , 253 p. 20 cm. Subjects: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, Stated First Edition 1928 Doubleday-Doran New York 253 pages. Very Good+ in a VG, scarce and uncommon DJ. Just a hint of shelf/edge wear to bright blue cloth boards with yellow panels and black titles, yellow top-stain and deckled edges--one corner lightly bumped. Previous owner name lightly written at the top left corner of the inside cover. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear and just a hint of toning to DJ (corner-clipped by the publisher but not price-clipped, 4 very small spots to the spine of the DJ) - DJ now in mylar. No notes or writing-all pages are bright, clean and crisp-blue and yellow end-papers with attractive illustrations of flapper girls. Jazz age novel of Flapper girl-A 1928 Top-Ten best seller. A very handsome copy. LOC SSS-15
Seller: Eyebrowse Books, MWABA, Dearborn, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: One of 500 copies only signed by Tarkington, F.N. Doubleday and George H. Doran on an inserted blank; the page is imprinted "To Commemorate The Founding of Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, By The Union Of Doubleday, Page & Co. And George H. Doran Company This Firts Volume Over The New Imprint Has Been Autographed By The Author and The Publishers." Hardcover in white vellum with paper spine label. Iluustrated endpapers. 253 pp. This copy unfortunately has significan staining to the vellum narrowly extending to the upper corner edges of the endpapers and limitation page.
Seller: Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABAA, ILAB), Bordentown, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Claire Ambler. Doubleday ,Doran & Co, N.Y., 1928.
Price: US$65.39 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition,stated.Ink mark on front free endpaper. Hard cover, no dust jacket. Very good condition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall
Seller: Livres Norrois, Quebec, QC, Canada
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1928.
Price: US$68.00 + shipping
Description: Book has modest cover wear and light soiling. Limited edition Signed by the Author and the Publishers in the celebration of the merger between Doubleday and Doran.
Seller: Uncommon Books, Glastonbury, CT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co., Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 253p.
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Overall, a handsome copy. Light shelf/edge wear, gentle bump to one corner, two small bumps at fore edge, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows light shelf/edge wear, minor chipping at top edge, subtle moisture stain at rear, else bright and clean. Blue cloth boards, orange paper labels, black ink lettering, decorative endpages. Small 8vo. 253pp.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: Stationery store stamp on the half-title page. Fine, bright copy in the uncommon and attractive, Near Fine dustwrapper with just a few tiny closed tears
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. 1 vols. 8vo. Blue cloth, paper labels. Fine, in Very Good, tape-repaired dust jacket. Bookplate of Joan Whitney
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Co, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Stated first edition. Bright blue cloth with orange pastedown labels with black lettering on cover and spine. Top edge stained yellow. Pictorial endpapers. No dust jacket. Near fine condition with previous owner's inked signature at top of first free endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, New York, 1928.
Price: US$80.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Book is clean and bright with a light owners stamp to front free endpaper. Jacket has a bit of light soil, with sunning and light spotting to the spine. Rear panel has a 1/2" tear. Scan on request.
Seller: Legacy, Sussex, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This stated first edition is in very good condition in a good jacket. The binding is a bit loose but the covers are lovely royal blue with yellow blocking and label attached to spine. (CK)
Seller: The Last Book Store, Tyler, TX, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., Garden City NY, 1928.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Description: 253 pages. Previous owner's name at top of contents page. Pages clean, good condition. Yellow and blue endpapers illustrated with delightful drawings. Royal blue cloth, yellow labels with black titles on spine and on upper cover. Edges and corners lightly worn. Beige pictorial dust jacket with great illustrations on both covers. Some stains. Edges worn. VG+/Good+
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A first Printing of the First Edition in Near Fine condition with most wear from aging and housed in a price-clipped dust-jacket in like condition with minor tanning to the edges; Booth Tarkington reveals a modern, alluring and lovingly complex young woman and her romances; 8vo; 253 pages
Seller: Books Tell You Why - ABAA/ILAB, Summerville, SC, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Company , Inc, New York, 1928.
Price: US$94.95 + shipping
Description: Very Good+ in boards.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth.. Claire Ambler.. Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co., 1928., 1928.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition (so stated). 8vo. Pictorial endpapers. Dust jacket (unclipped; short tear). Very good-fine. 253 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Signed and dated by Tarkington on the title page: "Booth Tarkington, 1939."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran, 1928.
Price: US$96.93 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: With the original $2.50 price on the jacket flap, 'First Edition' stated on the c.p., and yellow-inked top foreedge. In a Mylar dj cover. Scarce in dj this fine.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. , 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Garden City . First edition octavo. Spine spotted otherwise a very good copy in nicked dj. Inscribed by Tarkington in 1930./ Signed by Author(s)
Seller: Old New York Book Shop, ABAA, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc, New York, 1928.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. The first title issued under the new imprint of Doubleday, Doran & Co. and a top 10 best seller in 1928. 253pp. Bound in blue cloth, yellow paper labels lettered in black to upper board and spine, top edge yellow, pictorial endpapers, previous owner's name on front pastedown otherwise very good+ in price clipped pictorial dust jacket with mild chips.
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Surprise, AZ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran and Co, Garden City, New York, 1928.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Jazz Age novel of a young flapper. Near Fine in Near Fine, lovely example of the dustjacket.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY, 1928.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 253 pages. First edition. Limited edition. One of 500 copies to celebrate this, the first publication of Doubleday-Doran. One of 500 copies signed by Booth Tarkington, F.R. Doubleday and George H. Doran. White vellum hard cover stamped in gold and orange. Fine book in a clear plastic dust jacket. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. CLAIRE AMBLER. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1928.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition outside of the Limited Edition
Seller: beat book shop, Boulder, CO, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Claire Ambler. Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, Garden City, 1928.
Price: US$345.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 253pp. Blue cloth with yellow paste-ons printed in black on the spine and upper board. Top edge yellow. Colorful endpapers in blue and yellow. This copy is as bright as the day it was published. We note only a tiny bump on the top edge. The dustwrapper is fine as well, and is not price-clipped. It is a slight crease corresponding to the bump on the board beneath it. Sometimes call Tarkington's only flapper novel. And you will not find a nicer copy.
Seller: Thorn Books, ABAA, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Original white/cream boards stamped in gold and orange; printed paper label on the spine, t.e.g. Glassine dust jacket. Enclosed in 1/2 maroon morocco slipcase with folding chemise. Fresh, tight, fine copy. No signatures or bookplates. One of 500 copies signed by Booth Tarkington, F.R. Doubleday and George H. Doran.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.