Tarkington, Booth. The Plutocrat. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1927.

Price: US$20.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a stated First Edition. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have bumping, rubbing, wear and several small edge nicks, tears and spots of fraying to the spine ends and corners. There is a square pictorial pastedown title on the front cover, and a rectangular pictorial title on the spine of the book cover. There is rubbing and wear to the front pastedown and a couple of nicks and rubbing to the spine pastedown. The text pages are clean and bright. "Tarkington was one of the more popular American novelists of his time. His The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well known as Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873. Today, he is best known for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles filmed in 1942. It is included in the Modern Library's list of top-100 novels. The second volume in Tarkington's Growth trilogy, it contrasted the decline of the "old money" Amberson dynasty with the rise of "new money" industrial tycoons in the years between the American Civil War and World War I. " (from Wikipedia)

Seller: S. Howlett-West Books (Member ABAA), Modesto, CA, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Growth. Doubleday, Page, 1927.

Price: US$31.07 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Hardcover. No DJ. 1st edition. Pages are clean and unmarked. Covers show light edge wear with rubbing/light scuffing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Book shelf-cocked.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Seller: Redux Books, Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Growth. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1927.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Signed. First Edition. Inscribed and signed by the author in the prelims. Stated first edition. Lacking dust jacket. Cover shows minor wear, rubbing, and bumped corners. Pages are lightly tanned and clean.

Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.

TARKINGTON, Booth. Growth. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1927.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: First printing. Octavo. Black cloth hardcover; dustjacket; 887pp. Tight and straight, with a small bruise to rear board at fore edge; Very Good. In the original dustwrapper, unclipped (priced $2.50 on front flap), slightly sunned on spine, else complete, clean, and but lightly worn; Very Good. An omnibus trilogy of sorts, incorporating the full text of Tarkington's earlier novels The Magnificent Ambersons (1918), The Turmoil (1915), and The Midlander (1922), each joined by somewhat awkward bridging passages so as to complete (or attempt) a new, massive work of fiction. This publisher's trick does not appear to have been well-received; the New York Times wrote: "If the publishing method of which "Growth" is an imposing example continues in practice it will soon be possible to say of good novels that they never die, they only consolidate" (NYT, Oct 23, 1927). A rather scarce book today, especially in dustwrapper.

Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.