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Booth Tarkington. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday, Doran & company, inc., 1930.

Price: US$9.00 + shipping

Condition: Poor

Description: Former library book. Has been repaired by replacing the spine and meanding the hinges. Has been glued back into its covers after being shaken loose. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate 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. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday, Doran, Garden City, NY, 1930.

Price: US$25.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Minor shelf/edge wear, light dust staining to top of textblock, minor non-penetrating moisture stain at top of textblock, front joint professionally repaired, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, white ink lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 319pp.

Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY, 1930.

Price: US$50.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: "A Novel of the Maine Coast"; scarce early dj; triangular chip to lower left front cover, chipping to top and bottomof spine with rubbing to edges; however an attractive dj with seagulls; not price clipped ($2.00) Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Seller: Cornelius Muhilly Rare Books, Kansas City, MO, U.S.A.

Tarkington Booth. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday, Doran and Co, 1930.

Price: US$51.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: RO60145491: 1930. In-8. Relié toilé. Etat passable, Coins frottés, Dos fané, Papier jauni. 319 pages. Texte en anglais. Ex-libris à l'encre en page de garde. Nombreuses rousseurs. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon

Seller: Le-Livre, SABLONS, France

TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). Mirthful Haven. New York: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1930, 1930.

Price: US$64.98 + shipping

Description: [Modern literature] PRESENTATION COPY. Octavo (21 x 14cm), pp.[8] 319 [1]. INSCRIBED by the author to half-title; 'To John Sebastian Booth | From the Floats known | in Mirthful Haven as | "Pelfers" | June, 1935.' Gifted to John Booth on behalf of Tarkington's literary assistant Elizabeth Trotter Jr. Publisher's blue cloth with bird motif and titles blocked in white to upper board and spine. Blue, decorative endpapers matching bird motif on cover. Leaves lightly toned. Gutter is visible in a few places. Ownership inscription in black ink to flyleaf, leaving a small mark to paste-down. Spotting and toning to edges, mostly top. Toning to spine. With rubbing to board extremities and some fraying to headcap. Very good. Booth Tarkington is one of few novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize more than once. He contributed heavily to the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, a cultural boom in the early 20th century wherein most of North America's best art all seemed to stem from Indiana.

Seller: Adrian Harrington Ltd, PBFA, ABA, ILAB, Royal Tunbridge Wells, KENT, United Kingdom

Tarkington, Booth. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc., Garden City, NY, 1930.

Price: US$65.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: IN GOOD CONDITION. WARMLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR'S WIFE, SUSANAH on the half-title page. 319pp, bound in original blue cloth, with illustrated endpapers, binding and hinges tight. Covers soiled, spine darkened, occasional interior foxing.

Seller: Monroe Bridge Books, MABA Member, Houlton, ME, U.S.A.

TARKINGTON, Booth. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1930.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition. Erasure to the illustrated front endpaper, bottom corners bumped, a very good copy lacking the dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author at a later date. Moderately uncommon title, scarce signed.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. Mirthful Haven. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, NY, 1930.

Price: US$145.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: 319 pages. First edition, first printing. Dust jacket art by Georgi. A story of the Maine Coast. Fine book in a fine dust jacket with small (1") invisible closed tear to the top front gutter. Also intact is the orginal yellow wrap around banner with blurbs from the Book Of the Month Club and George Ade. A beautiful copy!

Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.