Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Booth Tarkington. The fighting Littles. Doubleday, Doran, 1941.
Price: US$3.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Due to age and/or environmental conditions, the pages of this book have darkened. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Boards are moderate to severely edgeworn. Shows more than the usual amount of shelf wear. 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. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City: Doubleday Doran, 1941. Stated First Edition. Very Good+/Very Good+. "First Edition" stated on copyright page, in clean unclipped original jacket. Clean blue cloth boards with yellow lettering on spine. No bumping or wear. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean, with clean endpapers. 304 pages. Jacket is not price clipped (2.00 on front inside flap), some soiling, closed edge tears, shallow chipping at top spine edge. Photo portrait of author on rear panel. Enclosed in new archival quality removable mylar cover. A rambunctious and humorous novel about an American family, and the struggles of seeing children through adolescence.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, 1941.
Price: US$22.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First hardcover edition, with dust jacket, published by Doubleday Doran, 1941. From the author of 'Alice Adams', the story of the everyday goings on of the Little family. 304 pages, 5-3/4" X 8". The dust jacket is intact and is not price clipped. Jacket has edge wear at the head-heel of the spine and tips of the corners, a closed tear of about 1" at the bottom edge of the back panel, and a 1" closed tear at the top edge of the back flap. Jacket has been protected with a clear, removable cover. Blue cloth covered boards with the title on the spine. Cover boards are flat, very minor spots of rubbing wear at the tips of the bottom corners. There is a large gift inscription in pencil on the first flyleaf page. No further writing besides that though. Mustard yellow top-stain, might be just a bit faded. Binding is tight and square. Not a remainder, not a library discard copy. Attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.
Seller: Hopkins Books, Nashua, NH, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Blue cloth, pictorial corner-clipped (not price-clipped) dust jacket. 304pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket edgeworn and a bit rubbed, with small chips at head and tail of spine; both pastedowns heavily age toned, as often seen on this title. A tight, decent first edition of this innocent family drama, "the year's gayest and most ingratiating book" according to the jacket.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, 1941.
Price: US$26.38 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Moderate wear and creases to the jacket. Pages are tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Fighting Littles. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, 1941.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/edge wear, priceclipped, else bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, white ink lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 304pp.
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, 1941.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Fine book in VG+ jacket. Dust jacket is clipped on all corners, light wear to extremities of spine and corners, now protected by fresh mylar sleeve. Book has no defects. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked. . A beautiful copy of the first edition, stated. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 304 pages. H5
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. THE FIGHTING LITTLES. Doubleday, Doran, New York, 1941.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: No chips to the bright jacket but tiny nicks to spine ends., and original $2.00 price. The book is in excellent condition. A great copy of an uncommon Tarkington title.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY, 1941.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 304 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Laune. The story of a lovable eccentric family. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with very slight rubbing to the top and bottom of the spine. A beautiful copy!
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1941.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author at a later date. A very funny novel, published late in the author's career, about a loveable and eccentric family.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). The Fighting Littles. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1941, 1941.
Price: US$128.09 + shipping
Description: [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 304. Publisher's light blue cloth blocked in white to spine, without jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to flyleaf and warmly inscribed to John Booth on behalf of Elizabeth Trotter Jr (Betty Trotter). Slight lean, minor wear to cloth, spine toned. Very good. The American novelist and dramatist Booth Tarkington was a multi-Pulitzer Prize winner. Elizabeth Trotter was the author's literary assistant, researcher, contributor to The Atlantic magazine in the 1920s, and the dedicatee of Tarkington's Wanton Mally (1932).
Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom
Tarkington, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941.
Price: US$246.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and inscribed to Emily Fox on behalf of Betty Trotter on the free endpaper in bold ink, and dated by Tarkington on Christmas 1941. Jacket is bright, clean and whole save for two small chips at the spine corners not affecting the text, and protected by the Brodart cover. Scarce in the dust jacket, even scarcer signed.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.