Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Tarkington, Booth. The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories. Doubleday Page, 1923.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderate wear and discoloring to the green covers; pages tanned; a good book overall. No jacket. Also includes The Party; The One Hundred Dollar Bill; Jeannette; The Spring Concert; Willamilla; The Only Child; Ladies' Ways; Maytime in Marlow; You; Us; The Tiger; Mary Smith. Illustrator: . Quantity Available: 1. Category: Fiction; Inventory No: 202718.
Seller: Easy Chair Books, Lexington, MO, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Description: Book Condition: Good. Chips at spine ends. Inside crack at spine. Ink spot on front cover. Slight stain at edges, but otherwise clean interior pages.
Seller: Ken's Book Haven, Coopersburg, PA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON Booth. The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories. Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1923.
Price: US$12.81 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 492pp, bound in original green cloth/gilt lettering and lining and gilt silhouette on front cover, sp sl darkened. Nice copy; Octavo
Seller: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom
Tarkington, Booth. The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, very good green cloth with gilt letter hardcover (no dust jacket) shows some mild rubbing anf shelfwear, light soil at covers and page edges, toning along spine, name at top of front endpaper and with some other light trace wear. 492 pages. Still a solid copy of this collection of stories from the noted American author of the Magnificent Ambersons and others.
Seller: Barker Books & Vintage, Helena, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$16.39 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 492 pages; Description: 5 p. L. , 492 p. 20 cm. Subjects: 20th century literature. Tarkington. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Tarkington, Booth. THE FASCINATING STRANGER AND OTHER STORIES. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1923.
Price: US$17.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st edition after a printing of 377 de luxe copies.
Seller: Artis Books & Antiques, Calumet, MI, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Fascinating Stranger. (US HB 1st in DJ). Doubleday Page & Co., 1923.
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: US hardback. Presumed first ediiton of 1923. The book is VG with 1923 gift inscription to ffep, in Good jacket with some rubbing and nicks and some yellowing to spine.
Seller: Hunter Books, Burnham, BUCKS, United Kingdom
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 x 7 1/2 in. Green cloth with gilt lettering and silhouette. Condition is VERY GOOD ; almost no shelf wear, covers extremely clean, spine a bit toned and dull. Binding tight, text spotless. Fiction. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.94 + shipping
Description: Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 492 pages; Description: 5 p. L. , 492 p. 20 cm. Subjects: 20th century literature. Tarkington. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Newton Booth Tarkington. The Fascinating Stranger, and other stories. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923.
Price: US$31.33 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: No jacket. A lot of scratches and some shelf wear on cover. Also some foxing on outer edges of pages. Content is fine.
Seller: Hay-on-Wye Booksellers, Hay-on-Wye, HEREF, United Kingdom
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: 492 pp. 8vo, publisher's cloth in dust jacket. First trade edition. Old ink ownership annotation on front free endpaper; cloth slightly rubbed at extremities; tight and sound (thought the hinges are just starting) in a jacket that has been trimmed (nearly 1/4") at the top edge, and neatly reinforced with brown tape on verso, along the length of the top and bottom edge.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON Booth. The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories. Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1923.
Price: US$35.86 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 492pp, bound in original green cloth/gilt lettering and lining and gilt silhouette on front cover, sp sl darkened. Nice copy; Octavo
Seller: Castle Hill Books, Llandrindod Wells, United Kingdom
Tarkington, Booth. The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories. Doubleday, Page, New York, 1923.
Price: US$39.78 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Near fine in gilt cover design. Out of print. Binding is cloth boards.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SIGNED & Numbered 135 & 1st Edition Stated -- EMAIL for Pictures
Seller: Pepper's Old Books, Hanson, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Collection of short stories by the popular novelist. Very Good, some loss at lower front endpaper, tape shadows at pastedowns in Very Good dustjacket.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Fascinating Stranger and Other Stories. Doubleday, Page and Company, 1923.
Price: US$47.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good first Doubleday trade edition first printing in very good price unclipped dust jacket ($2.00). Jacket has shelfwear, some missing material at the top of the spine, some writing and cover pulls, but is present. Protected in a clear attractive Mylar cover. Scarce as true first in dust jacket. We use quality packaging materials.
Seller: Third Person Books, Elk Grove Village, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. [6], 492 pages. Green cloth hardcover with gilt title on the front cover and spine. Silhouette gilt illustration on the front cover. Dust jacket included with silhouette illustration and title on the front and spine. Small tear to the jacket bottom spine corner. Price $2.00 bottom front inner dust jacket flap. Front hinge intact but slightly loose. Very light wear to the cloth extremities. Interior contents very clean. Stated first edition.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Fascinating Stranger. Doubleday, Page & Company, NY, 1923.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First printing. Very good plus in like dustjacket. Previous owner bookplate on front pastedown.Not priceclipped and no markings. (box 179a)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Thick 8vo, cloth backed boards, printed spine label, lightly rubbed, 492pp. TEG, others untrimmed. Very Good copy. 1 of 377, SIGNED BY TARKINGTON, this copy not numbered.
Seller: Steve Finer - Rare Books, Greenfield, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$59.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Limited, First Edition of 377 copies, signed by the author. Copy #89. 492 pages. Original blue cloth boards with yellow cloth spine and blue spine label. Gilt top. Lightest wear only to dust jacket, now protected in mylar. Original slipcase included as well--general wear to slipcase.
Seller: A Book By Its Cover, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy with owner's stamp and pencil scribble to ffep. 7 - 10 pages with some light soiling not affecting print. Back hinge starting. Some light edge-wear to boards and to crown and foot of backstrip. Some loss of gilt to lettering and some pen markings to front board. Text otherwise clean. Size: 8vo
Seller: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Canada
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A very nice copy with owner's stamp and pencil scribble to ffep. 7 - 10 pages with some light soiling not affecting print. Back hinge starting. Some light edge-wear to boards and to crown and foot of backstrip. Some loss of gilt to lettering and some pen markings to front board. Text otherwise clean. Size: 8vo
Seller: RPBooks, Champlain, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$64.04 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 492pp. Blue boards w yellow cloth spine. SIGNED LIMITED EDITION, no 197 of 377 copies. Neat ink ownership inscription to fep and first blank o/w contents clean, tight and bright, a very nice copy.
Seller: David Kenyon, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Hbk, 492pp, this edition limited to 377 signed and numbered copies of which this is number 134 (SIGNED by the author on limitation page), lacks dj, quarter yellow cloth over blue paper covered boards with gilt borders, gilt and top foredge, spine label with gilt titles, one or two small light and unobtrusive spots to front cover, otherwise appears an unread copy, very good++ clean, tight and unmarked
Seller: Sutton Books, Norwich, VT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Fascinating Stranger. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1923.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Light chipping at head and tail of scuffed spine, ow very presentable.
Seller: The Dawn Treader Book Shop, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Collection of short stories by the popular novelist. Near Fine in Very Good plus dustjacket, small chip and wear at top spine end, small chip at top front flap corner.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, number 267 of 375 copies, signed by the author. 1 vols. Thick 8vo. Cloth and blue boards, label. Very good First edition, number 267 of 375 copies, signed by the author.
Seller: The Old Mill Bookshop, HACKETTSTOWN, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. THE FASCINATING STRANGER; and other stories. Doubleday Page, NY, 1923.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 492. A very nice copy in little worn scarce dj. Russo and Sullivan p. 67.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First trade edition (so stated). 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped; small chip). Very good. Scarce thus. No signatures or bookplates. Contains 12 other short stories.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$137.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Thick 8vo. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. 492 pages. No other signatures or bookplates. Number 192 of 377 numbered copies, signed by Tarkington on the limitation page.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed by Booth Tarkington. Number 284 of 375 copies. Quarter cream cloth with blue boards and blue paper label on spine with gilt lettering. Top edge gilt. Plain blue dust jacket with dark blue lettering on spine. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 492 pages. First edition, first printing. Inscribed (April 22, 1942) by Tarkington on the second sheet. Thirteen short stories. Near fine book in a near fine dust jacket with slight wear to the corners. A very nice copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 492 pages; VG/VG-; in G+ blue slipcase; spine age-toned light blue, with black lettering; mild shelf wear and soiling; slipcase starting at top edges; tide line to head of jacket spine; upper edges of textblock bright gilt; catalog listing tipped in at front pastedown; signed flat by Tarkington at limitations page; hand-numbered #4 at limitations page; pages uncut; CX consignment; shelved on bookshelves to the left of the copier. 1346289. FP New Rockville Stock.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.