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Booth Tarkington. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
Price: US$6.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine tanned, some shelf wear. Pages clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips, and Company, New York, 1905.
Price: US$7.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 144 pp. Cover is heavily scuffed, with worn corners ar bottom and frayed cloth at head and foot of spine. Text is very clean and bright, and binding is still secure.
Seller: Persephone's Books, Gastonia, NC, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. THE BEAUTIFUL LADY. McClure, Phillips, and Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$7.20 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Spine slightly worn and chipped at ends. Pages slightly yellowed. Black and white illust. 144 pages. Chapter book.
Seller: Betty Mittendorf /Tiffany Power BKSLINEN, Ralston, NE, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. In the Arena: Stories of Political Life. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
Price: US$9.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Fading to spine, general shelf wear. Splitting to inner hinges but binding is intact. Pages clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips & Company, 1905, 1905.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Description: Very good with no dust jacket. Rose colored cloth is a little worn and the spine is sunned. The spine is also slightly cocked. 1905 gift inscription on front endpaper.
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. IN THE ARENA: STORIES OF POLITICAL LIFE. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Small 8vo 7½" - 8" tall; 276 pages
Seller: Novel Ideas Books & Gifts, Decatur, IL, U.S.A.
Booth tarkington. In the Arena. McClure Phillips, New York, 1905.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Spine a bit faded/worn, slight wear to corners, covers clean and bright. Front hinge paper just starting to give. Interesting signature on second free endpaper. Photos upon request. "Stories of Political Life" (just what we need right now)
Seller: Trench Books, Hudson, ME, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Beautiful Lady. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. red cloth with gilt Tarkington beautifully captures what it feels like to be overwhelmed by someone's beauty. A poignant and moving tale, written with deep skill and understanding. some cloth wear, rubbing, spine fading, inside is clean tight. KM
Seller: Modesty Swan Books and Art, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. In the Arena Stories of Political Life. MCCLURE, PHILLIPS & CO., NEW YORK, 1905.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine faded, page edges slightly soiled and yellowed, black-and-white frontispiece DATE PUBLISHED: 1905 EDITION: 276
Seller: Princeton Antiques Bookshop, Atlantic City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905. 8vo. Very good in red cloth covered boards with gilt title to front board and to spine. Interior is clean and bright with illustrated end pages and beautiful illustrations throughout.
Seller: Under the Covers Antique Books, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. IN THE ARENA, A Novel of Political Life. McClure, Phillips & Co.: NY, 1905.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by A.I. Keller etc., 7.75 x 5.25", gilt-lettered pict cloth, 276pp, covers a little rubbed and darkened, spine sunned a bit, contents nice. FIRST EDITION. Decorative cloth binding.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$32.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Size octavo, 7.75" tall, 144 pages. Red buckram cloth covered boards with gilt title within elaborate art nouveau vignette to the front cover and gilt titles to the spine, top page edge gilt, outer page edge rough trimmed. With 7 illustrations drawn by Blendon Campbell within elaborate art nouveau frames by William Jordan, printed on glossy paper and protected by captioned tissue-guards. Condition very good plus, corners and spine ends are very slightly rubbed, spine quite faded, contents are very clean throughout, including the plates Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Booth Tarkington. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips and Co, New York, 1905.
Price: US$32.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A handsome first edition copy of Booth Tarkington. Illustrated throughout this a lovely example of this charming novella by the highly accolades American author. First edition. A short novel by the important 20th century American author Booth Tarkington. Original publisher in Harper's Magazine, the work was first published book form in 1905. A charming love story, this is a lovely example of Tarkington's early work, with his literature career continuing into the 1940s. An incredibly prolific author, Tarkington is one of very few people to with the Pulitzer Price for Fiction multiple times. Illustrated throughout with a frontispiece and 6 plates. Collated complete. In a publisher's original cloth binding. Externally smart. Bumping to the head and tail of the spine and also to the extremities. Light fading to the spine, with a small tide mark to the tail of the rear board. Ink inscription to the front endpaper. Booksellers label to the rear pastedown to the tail. Internally firmly bound. Pages are generally clean with the odd spot. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Booth Tarkington. In the Arena: Stories of Political Life. McClure, Phillips & Co, 1905.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 276 pages. By the twice-winning Pulitzer Prize-winning author. Illustrated in black-and-white. First edition (first printing). Near fine in original green cloth decorated in black with gilt lettering. Light fading to spine. Tissue over frontispiece loose. No dust jacket.
Seller: Eureka Books, Eureka, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth.. In the Arena.. N.Y:McClure Phillips. 1905. Hardcover., 1905.
Price: US$56.00 + 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.
Booth Tarkington,. The Beautiful Lady. McClure Phillips & Co, 1905.
Price: US$64.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Beautiful Lady by Booth Tarkington, 1905 published by McClure Phillips & Co inscribed by the author red cloth with gilt very good 1st edition illustrated Tarkington beautifully captures what it feels like to be overwhelmed by someone's beauty. This is a poignant and moving tale, written with deep skill and understanding. some cloth wear, rubbing, spine fading, inside is clean tight and very good
Seller: Sheapast Art and Books, Sherman Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. In the Arena:. Stories of a Political Life. McClure, Phillips, New York, 1905.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Author's fifth book and first collection of short stories. Many stories related to his stint in the Indiana legislature. A handsome copy. Very minimal shelf/edge wear, bookplate on front pastdown, else tight, bright and unmarred. Green cloth boards, gilt lettering, black decorative elements, frontispiece, tissueguard. 8vo. 276pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips & Co., 1905.
Price: US$81.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Bump at foot of spine, slightly faded spine, no other defects. Bright gilt titles and decoration to front cover and spine, pages clean and bright. Five full-page illustrations are in perfect condition with like tissue guards. . A beautiful copy of an early Tarkington book. . 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. 143 pages. J3
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$90.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Decorated red boards with gold lettering and floral decorations in gold by deocorative designer Will Jordan on cover with minor shelf wear to spine top and bottom and darkend by sun and spotting on front cover. Frontispiece and all illustrations by Blendon Campbell with tissues (one slightly detached but in good condition). Decorated endpapers by WJ as well. Painted out lettering on front endpapers, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. 144 pgs.
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Beautiful Lady. McClure, Phillips & Co., New York, 1905.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Decorated red boards with gold lettering and floral decorations in gold by deocorative designer Will Jordan on cover with minor shelf wear to spine top and bottom and darkend by sun. Frontispiece and all illustrations by Blendon Campbell with tissues. Decorated endpapers by WJ as well. Original owner signature on front endpage, otherwise a very clean, tight copy. 144 pgs.
Seller: Bucolusa Books, El Cerrito, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at recto of frontispiece - "For the beautiful lady and gentleman - from their affectionate and admiring son, Booth. May 2nd. 05". Also SIGNED AND INSCRIBED at front decorative end page -"Given to my friend Ada Bradshaw by Elizabeth B. Tarkington". Elizabeth B.Tarkington, (10 Nov 1833 - 17 Apr 1909), was Booth Tarkington's Mother and the person who kindled his interest in literature and writing. She was featured in two of his novels, The Two Van Revels (1902) and Penrod and Sam (1916). Very Good, no jacket, boards are soiled and stained, the interior is clean and unblemished, gilt lettering at spine dulled. Red cloth lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, illustrated end papers, frontispiece, and 6 illustrations in text. 144 pages. A truly wonderful Tarkington Association Copy, bearing a loving and respectful inscription from a son to his beloved parents, and additionally bearing his Mother's signature. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Dale Steffey Books, ABAA, ILAB, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.