Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 117 pages; unmarked. Brown boards have extensive rubbing and fading. Text clean and unmarked. DJ has some marking, tearing, and age fading and some loss of paper now in Brodart cover. READING COPY ONLY - FIRST EDITION
Seller: you little dickens, Milwaukie, OR, U.S.A.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Front inner hinge is weak. Covers are somewhat darkened. Spine label is browned and chipped. Written name and address ink stamp on front endpaper.
Seller: Willis Monie-Books, ABAA, Cooperstown, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth; Wilson, Harry Leon. The Gibson Upright - A New Play. Doubleday, Page & Co, 1919.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ spine darkened; separating at front hinge; chips and edgewear.
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by a pamphlet version. Octavo. 117pp. Binding worn and a bit loose, spine label toned, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth & WILSON, Harry Leon. The Gibson Upright. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1919.
Price: US$33.75 + shipping
Description: 8vo, light brown cloth, paper labels; top of spine frayed. Garden City: Doubleday Page, 1919. First Edition. Autographed by the author.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth & Wilson, Harry Leon. The Gibson Upright. Doubleday, Page, NY, 1919.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: VG (no Dust Jacket). INSCRIBED BY THE ATUHOR: "For Atwater Kent, a model employer. Booth Tarkington". Inventor and prominent radio manufacturer, Atwater Kent maintained vacation homes in Bar Harbor and Kennebunkport, Maine and was good friends with Tarkington and Kenneth Roberts. Play, preceded by a paper edition
Seller: Mystery Cove Book Shop, Hulls Cove, ME, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, BOOTH AND WILSON, HARRY LEON.. THE GIBSON UPRIGHT. DOUBLEDAY , PAGE & CO., NY, 1919.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: DJ, 1" TEAR ON BACK EDGE
Seller: STUDIO V, San Marcos, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Gibson Upright. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1919.
Price: US$149.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Brown cloth with paper title labels to spine and front. First edition. Inscribed by Tarkington to the ffep, with 1919 date. Spine ends/corners rubbed/softened, slightly cocked, edges rubbed, light soil, gutter darkened at fep. Binding is sound. The DJ in mylar has large loss to rear panel top corner, is toned, rubbed, chipped at spine ends, rubbed through at gutter. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; Signed by Author
Seller: curtis paul books, inc., Northridge, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth and Harry Leon Wilson. The Gibson Upright. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1919.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by a pamplet version. Corners bumped and some slight wear at the spinal extremities else near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Signed by Tarkington. A scarce play.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First hardcover edition, preceded by a pamphlet version. Fine in very good dustwrapper with a chip on the front panel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: True 1st hardcover edition, preceeding the 1st trade edition. First serialized in the Saturday Evening Post and the Plumber's Trade Journal, then published in wrappers as an advertisement for the Eastman Kodak Company, and in this hardcover book form, which has several differences in the dustjacket from the trade edition. The spine of the dj is absent a price, and has the publishers logo instead. The front panel has a different description of the book-"A play for all people who work- employers and employees. Is Bolshevism coming into American industry? A timely satire by these keenly observant American writers upon the labor situation, with much occasion for laughter but more occasion for thought." The flaps and the back panel list no prices for the books advertised. And the rear panel has a quote by William Dean Howells instead of the line "And a complete library itself". Boards lightly discolored at bottom edge, consistent with the work of insects. Very Good dustjacket has a 4" closed tear at the spine fold and small chips at head and heel of spine and at the tips. Flaps are tapered at corners, with no price present. An attractive, clean copy of this rare variant issue of this scarce play. Period bookseller's letter laid in- from Charles McLean, Bookseller, Dayton OH- dated Mar. 4 (no year) and states: "Dear Jim; This could well be renamed 'Reuther and the General Motors Corp.' I promised you this for many months, you can relax and get a chuckle or two."
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.