Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Tarkington, Booth & Gordon Grant. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1914.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Blue cloth, small illustration on front. Cloth has some soiling and wear. ; 1914
Seller: Acme Book Company, Fayetteville, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$8.00 + shipping
Description: 345
Seller: Dick's Book Barn, Trumansburg, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, 1914.
Price: US$10.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Has sence for sense, but page VII is not numbered
Seller: James Cummings, Bookseller, Signal Mountain, TN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod Tarkington, Booth. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.
Price: US$11.25 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1914 in good dust jacket boy sitting on fence with dog looking up
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$11.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: B003G4HNS4 Some wear. very serviceable copy.
Seller: Blindpig Books, salt lake city, UT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page Garden City 1914, 1914.
Price: US$17.85 + shipping
Description: 345pp. 8vo illustrated in black and white by Gordon Grant Pictorial blue cloth 1st Edition. Peter Parley to Penrod: mixed printing with no "viii" on that page (later state) and with "sence" rather than "sense" on 19:23 (1st state) in first binding with meshed cloth (later ribbed) Light cover soil, else VG+/no dj
Seller: Bear Bookshop, John Greenberg, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York:, 1914.
Price: US$19.95 + shipping
Description: Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. A very nice, tight copy, with "1914" printed at the foot of the title page. Inner hinges are perfectly sound. Bound in the original blue ribbed cloth -- with only a touch of rubbing at the spine ends. Black & white illustration on the cover, and white lettering on the spine and front cover are bright with NO flaking. Handsomely illustrated by Gordon Grant with 12 full-page drawings, including a frontispiece, plus vignettes on the fly title, half-title, and at the start of each chapter. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and free of markings. Later state, with page viii not numbered; "sense" correctly spelled on page 19; and no l in "perfect y" on p. 344. HIGH SPOT OF AMERICAN LITERATURE p. 71. Russo/Sullivan pp. 29-33 [A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF BOOTH TARKINGTON]. Bruccoli FPAA, vol. 1, p. 370 [FIRST PRINTINGS OF AMERICAN AUTHORS]. PPP pp. 132-33 [PETER PARLEY TO PENROD, A BIBLIOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION OF THE BEST-LOVED AMERICAN JUVENILE BOOKS]. Johnson/Blanck (1942) p. 490 [MERLE JOHNSON'S AMERICAN FIRST EDITIONS]. . First Edition, Early Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good+ condition./No jacket. Illus. by Grant, Gordon. 8vo. (x), 345pp.
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co. 1914, 1914.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, second issue. Very good with no dust jacket. Blue boards with white lettering and a circular illustration in the front board. The edges of the cloth are soiled at places, as are the page edges. Name in ink, and inscription in pencil on the front endpaper. Illustrations by Gordon Grant .
Seller: Tulsa Books, Tulsa, OK, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. PENROD. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Second state with "sence" on page 19 but page viii not numbered. Light shelfwear to boards. Wear at spine ends. Spine cocked. Light foxing and soiling to text block. Bookplate on front pastedown. Text and illustrations are clean throughout.
Seller: Lost Time Books, Brattleboro, VT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$24.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First state, with "sence" typo on page 19 and viii on second page of contents. Overall condition is good. Frayed spine ends, previous owner name and July 1914 gift inscription. (box 177a)
Seller: Bruce Davidson Books, Arlington, MA, U.S.A.
BOOTH TARKINGTON. PENROD. DOUBLEDAY & CO. 1914 January 1914, 1914.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: tight, clean and bright covers and spine; private library label on inside cover and owner name on facing page; otherwise very good unmarked copy
Seller: Dunaway Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1914.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state (Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 132). Illustrated. Very good, no jacket, plastic cover. Light darkening to fore-edge and spine, top front corner lightly bumped which has lightly bent page corners on first 20 pages, name and note "read at Plumbier France 1914" on ffep.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1914.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state (Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 132). Illustrated. Very good, no jacket. Very light rubbing to spine ends and corners, hinge cracked at title page, front hinge weak.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page & Co, New York, 1914.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first state (Peter Parley to Penrod, p. 132). Illustrated. Very good. blue meshed cloth stamped in white and black, white lettering, light rubbing to title on spine, but still very readable.
Seller: Illustrated Bookshelf, Flagstaff, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Doubleday, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, original pictorial blue cloth. First edition, third issue with page vii not numbered and "sense" spelled correctly on page 19. Smith, American Fiction, 1901-1925 T-50. Cloth lightly rubbed at spine ends and corner tips, a very good copy. (#114359)
Seller: Currey, L.W. Inc. ABAA/ILAB, Elizabethtown, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Doubleday, Page & Co.: Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$28.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illus. by Gordon Grant, 7.5 x 5", pict blue mesh cloth, 345pp. Spine darkened, light wear to corners and spine tips, ink name and date else good to very good condition. Adventures of Penrod and his dog Duke. FIRST EDITION, FIRST STATE.
Seller: John K King Used & Rare Books, Detroit, MI, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Reprint. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Faint small stain on the edge of the last few pages else near fine.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, New York, 1914.
Price: US$30.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: light blue verical fine-ribbed publisher's cloth; lettering in white on spine and on front cover; hinges tight; circular vignette on front cover in excellent condition; gift inscription and signature dated 1915 on f.f.e.p.; slightest of shelf rubbing at extremities; 345 pages; first edition, second state with "sense" at line 3 page 19.
Seller: Reeve & Clarke Books (ABAC / ILAB), South River, ON, Canada
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Cloth worn over edges, very good plus, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. PENROD. , 1914.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: TARKINGTON, Booth. PENROD. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition, later state. 8vo, decorated blue cloth. Ink signature. With minor shelfwear, this copy is sharp, very good, without the dust jacket. $35.00.
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Doubleday Page & Company: NY, 1914.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 6th large printing. VG+ book, Two line former owner inscription penned on front fly along with Easter 1915. An attractive well bound book in good DJ. Approx 3/4" chip off upper right spine crown, else very good with small edgewear and light rub. Publisher's $1.25 price is on spine of book jacket. Gordon Grant dustjacket art and illustrations. Tarkington's classic novel of youth. * (THIS BOOK IS IN OUR POSSESSION. WE SHIP MOST BOOKS SIX DAYS A WEEK AND WILL CONFIRM WITH TRACKING NUMBER FOR DOMESTIC ORDERS OR CUSTOMS NUMBER FOR NON DOMESTIC) *; 8vo
Seller: Abound Book Company, Overland Park, KS, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON BOOTH. PENROD. DOUBLEDAY , PAGE & CO, GARDEN CITY NY, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: SOLID CLEAN BRIGHT AND UNMARKED BOOK STATES 1914 ON TITLE AND COPYRIGHT PAGES NO OTHER PRINTINGS MENTIONED CHAPTER VIII IS NUMBERED SENCE IS MISSPELLED ON PAGE 19 BOUND IN BLUE WITH COMPLETE WHITE LETTERING NICELY ILLUSTRATED BY GORDON GRANT DESIGN OF BOY AND DOG IN GREAT SHAPE ON FRONT COVER LIGHT WEAR AT TOP AND BOTTOM OF SPINE A NICE EARLY COPY
Seller: ARD Books, cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, New York, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914, 1914. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in white, vignette to front board in white and black depicting Penrod and his dog. First edition, first printing, first issue binding of meshed cloth, first state with p. viii numbered and the misprint "sence" p. 19, third line from bottom. This is the first of three novels following the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, comic sketches of a Midwestern Tom Sawyer whom Tarkington modeled on his mischievous nephews. Cover fair with soiling and wear including tear heel of spine, text surprisingly clean and bright.
Seller: 11th Street Collectibles, Cumming, GA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page & Co., Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Garden City: Doubleday Page & Co., 1914. First Edition, First Printing. Very Good/No Dust jacket. Gordon Grant, Illustrator. First Edition (not the first state; this book has "sense" spelled correctly on pg. 19). 1914 on title page and on copyright page. Blue ribbed cloth boards are clean (very small faint spot to rear board, smaller than a pea). Lettering and illustration is unchipped. Tiny spots of wear-through to lower spine corners, two very tiny tears at top spine cloth edge. Binding is tight & square, no cracking. Pages and edges are clean (slightly yellowed). Previous owner name/address neatly penned on rear fixed endpaper. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp.
Seller: Old Scrolls Book Shop, Stanley, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914; same date on title and copyright pages, no additional printings indicated; mixed issue of first edition with "sence" on pg. 19, but no vii at end of contents page; [x], 345pp. VG-/G+ hardcover in green linen dust jacket. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; very light wear to edges of blue cloth boards, light soil smudge on front board, minor toning to spine; stamped white titling/decoration on front board and spine remains bold illustrations and text also very good; bookseller's tag (H.W. Fisher & Co. of Philadelphia) on rear paste-down. Green linen dust jacket (not issued with book) is lightly toned over spine, leather title tag is chipped, gilt titling and "First Issue 1914" at foot a little dulled but otherwise clearly legible. Ships from Dinkytown in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Seller: Book House in Dinkytown, IOBA, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1914.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 8vo. First edition, second state, with "sence" instead of "sense" on page 19 but page viii unnumbered. Light soilage and shelfwear to cloth binding. Picture on front board rubbed some but still clear. Very slight looseness to front hinge. Pages generally clean. Small tear by hinge edge of frontis.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, NY, 1914.
Price: US$48.75 + shipping
Description: Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak and cracked in back. ; First edition first state .
Seller: Gibson's Books, New Hope, AL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday and Page, Garden City, NY, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first edition published by Doubleday and Page in 1914. Later printing with ' sences ' corrected to ' senses ' on page 19, third row from bottom. Bound in publishers bright blue cloth with Gordon Grant illustration to front board. There are eleven Grant illustrations plus the frontispiece by Grant. A very good copy, with the blue cloth unnaturally bright. Light wear to extremities.
Seller: The Reluctant Bookseller, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Reprint. Lightly cocked else very good minus.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second state, with page viii unnumbered. In all other respects, identical with the first state. One of the classics of American Children literature (See the noted bibliography Peter Parley to Penrod). Slight fading to spine title, else a near fine copy, tight and clean, with front cover title and pastedown unchipped and bright.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Edges slightly rubbed and owner's inscription front free endpaper. In custom-cut Mylar jacket. Scarce. Out of print. Binding is cloth.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.
Price: US$52.20 + shipping
Description: PENROD, Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914, 1st ed. (first issue), slight wear to spine extremities, else a vg/vg+ copy. (As new facsimile dust-wrapper is available for a modest fee. Please inquire if interested. Thank you).
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth; illustrated by Gordon Grant. Penrod. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1914.
Price: US$54.00 + shipping
Description: Ink stains to the bottom fore edge corner of some pages, otherwise internallly clean and bright. Minor rubbing wear to extremities.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie, Booksellers A.B.A.A, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 8vo. Pictorial blue ribbed cloth stamped in white and black. Second issue. Very clean. Bright. Tight. Sharp. no jacket. Fine plus condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Garden City, New York, 1914.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. First issue with the point "sence" on page 19, and with the page numeration "viii" present would be missing were this a second issue. Very good plus with some darkening to boards due to soiling and minor stains. Small bookseller label to front free endpaper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1914.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue, first binding. Blue cloth with circular pictorial of Penrod and his dog with off white lettering on cover and spine. No dust jacket. Light wear to edges of cover. Very good condtion. Size: 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing 2nd Printing
Seller: Top Edge Gilt, Scottsdale, AZ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.
Price: US$70.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Prompt shipment, with tracking. we ship in CLEAN SECURE BOXES NEW BOXES Good hardcover, clean pages. Prior ownership in ink on front free endpaper. Bumped tips.
Seller: Robinson Street Books, IOBA, Binghamton, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. PENROD. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company,, 1914.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, mixed state: "sence" for "sense" page 19, page "viii" unnumbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Owner's name and address to front free endsheet, else a very good plus copy with mild soiling, very light wear; in blue textured cloth with debossed cream lettering and circular inset paste-on illustration (in superb condition); no dust jacket. Tarkington's brilliantly witty and enduringly popular comic portrait of boyhood in a small Midwestern city, immeasurably enhanced by Grant's pitch-perfect line drawings; in the front cover inset, Duke the dog's tail wags over the edge of the circle.
Seller: BOOKFELLOWS Fine Books, ABAA, Sun City, AZ, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth.. Penrod.. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: 345 [1] pp. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 8vo, publisher's decorated blue cloth. First edition, second state. Russo & Sullivan, p. 29. Bookplate on pastedown; an attractive copy with the slightest of wear to cloth.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914. First edition, 1914.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First American Edition. Blue cloth cover inset of Penrod on cover, lettering bright First State: Page "viii" so numbered, and the word "sense" rendered "sence" in the third line from the bottom of page 19. Inner hinge cracked
Seller: Ocean Tango Books, North Hollywood, CA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Penrod. Doubleday Page, 1914.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early printing of First Edition but not first state; light ribbed blue cloth with circle image of Penrod sitting on fence; unmarked fresh pages likely an unread copy only very minor to extremes very good plus plus to near fine satisfaction guaranteed or purchase price promptly refunded
Seller: Rare Reads, Athens, GA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. First state. Pictorial blue mesh cloth - first binding. Blue cloth stamped in white and black. "sence" for sense 3rd line from bottom of page 19. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Front endpaper cracked in fold. Front hinge starting to loosen and mesh is starting to split. Flyleaf missing - needs a new endpaper. Light water stain at lower right corner through page 6 and on several other pages here and there otherwise clean. no jacket. Fair condition.
Seller: Cultural Connection, Cape Coral, FL, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Penrod. DOUBLEDAY, PAGE AND COMPANY, 1914.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: The story that follows the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven year old boy growing up in pre World War 1.
Seller: Smokey, York, NE, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. Penrod. Doubleday, Page and Co, 1914.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Some edgewear.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. PENROD. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, NY, 1914.
Price: US$106.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, pp. 345. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Original light blue mesh blue cloth, pictorially stamped in black andwhite, lettered in white,Later state with "sense" p. 19 and [p. vii unnumbered]. rear hinge starting tender. VG. See Russo & Sullivan pp. 29-34; Peter Parley to Penrod pp. 132-133.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1914.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: 346p. illus. by Gordon Grant Very good condition, spot on front flyleaf skinned
Seller: J. Lawton, Booksellers, Readville, MA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914.
Price: US$120.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Out of print and scarce. First binding: measures 1.25" across covers. Binding is cloth.
Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page, New York, 1914.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state (with "sence" on pg.19, but with page "viii" unnumbered). Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Spine lettering a bit rubbed, a tight, very good or better copy lacking the uncommon dustwrapper. The ultimate book in the children's book collector's list "Peter Parley to Penrod" about a boy and his dog. Along with its sequel *Penrod and Sam*, it spawned at least six films that we are aware of, and is one of the archetypal books for boys. Tarkington has been the critics' whipping boy for nearly a century, but curiously he has several books that have survived long after many of his more critically acclaimed colleagues have been forgotten: two different Pulitzer Prize-winning novels (*The Magnificent Ambersons* and *Alice Adams*), a hilarious satire on the art and antique trade (*Rumbin Galleries*), and this title and another classic children's book (*Seventeen*).
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth; Grant, Gordon (illus). Penrod. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, NY, 1914.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Second state textblock (with "sence" instead of sense on p. 19, but p. viii unnumbered), first state binding. Very minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright and unmarred. Blue cloth boards, cream lettering, cream and black ink pictorial element, frontispiece. Small 8vo. 345pp. Illus. (b/w plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. PENROD. Doubleday and Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$144.95 + shipping
Description: Near Fine. No jacket. Early reprint. Edgewear. Corners and spine worn. 1" scrape back panel. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Signed by Tarkington, inscribed and dated 10, February, 1930. Roman numeral eight present, thatched cover, "sence" on page 19. Wear at top and bottom of spine & corners. Blue boards.
Seller: Chester Creek Books, Duluth, MN, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Penrod. New York Doubleday Page 1914, 1914.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue. Ownership inscription. Some cloth rubbing, very good.
Seller: James Pepper Rare Books, Inc., ABAA, Santa Barbara, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Cmpany, Garden City, New York, 1914.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, first issue. viii, 345 pages; drawings; bound in full leather (blue calf, raised bands) with original title and spine lettering used on the binding. Booth Tarkington (1869-1946) was an American novelist & dramatist who won the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction twice (1919 & 1922). This volume was the first in a series of three books about Penrod Scofield, an eleven year old boy in the mid-west before World War I. A very good clean copy bound in full blue leather.
Seller: Barry Cassidy Rare Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Penrod. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$207.33 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Bound in blue cloth with white & black decoration to front board; white lettering to spine. Illustrated throughout in black & white. Very light wear to outer corners & head & heel of spine. Pages show age darkening, some soiling & light foxing to outer edges. Upper page edges soiled. Signatures have started, but binding is very sound.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Doran, NY, 1914.
Price: US$297.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Hardcover first edition, with "sence" for "sense " on p.19, 3 lines from bottom of the page. A very fine copy of this classic from the turn of the 20th century. Blue boards are bright , white titles & cover illustration are in excellent shape. Inside is a nice gift presentation on the FEP : " Henry Beecher May 10, 1914 from Mrs. Page" . Pages are clean and fresh. The best copy of this book I have ever seen. Tarkington won 2 of the first 4 Pulitzer Prizes for Fiction- one of only 3 authors to have won 2 Pulitzers for novels.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue. Octavo blue cloth lettered in yellow and with a b/w pictorial cover onlay. Front inner hinge starting, and some very light cover dusting, else a near fine copy, scarce in the first issue. Peter Parley to Penrod p. 132.
Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$395.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrations by Gordon Grant. Small 8vo. Blue mesh cloth with white lettering and front board white and black circular pictorial stamping. 345pp. Frontispiece, 11 full-page called-for line drawings, numerous small line drawings. Very good. Mild edgewear, with spine lettering a tad rubbed only. A tight and attractive first edition, second state (and first state binding), with all proper points. Sharp copy of this Hoosier classic, with fun modern autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf (recto and verso) are fine, matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards boldly signed by four of the cast members from the 1951 musical film "On Moonlight Bay," based on "Penrod," and a 1953 sequel "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Front flyleaf (recto, top to bottom): DORIS DAY (1922-2019), who plays Marjorie Winfield, pens "love" and signs in black fineline; BILLY GRAY (born 1938), who plays Wesley Winfield, signs in black ballpoint and dates it 26 January 1990 at upper right. Front flyleaf (verso, top to bottom): RUSSELL ARMS (1920-2012), who plays Chester Finley, signs in blue ballpoint and dates it 5 September 1982 at upper right; and MARY WICKES (1910-95), who plays housekeeper Stella, signs in black fineline and dates it 30 November 1974 at upper right. A nice first extra-illustrated with four relevant film version mementos. Original signature transmittal envelopes for Gray, Arms and Wickes are laid in. RUSSO AND SULLIVAN 29.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, first issue, with "sence" instead of sense on p. 19, and p. viii numbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Slight lightening to the cloth at the bottom of the spine, else about fine, lacking the dustwrapper. A bright copy of a children's classic.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1914.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state, with folio 'viii' and 'sence' on page 19, line 23. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Tarkington's most famous book, a classic of boyhood. Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 132-133; Russo & Sullivan, pp. 29-33 Blue meshed cloth (first binding). Fine Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, first state, with folio 'viii' and 'sence' on page 19, line 23.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$737.59 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, first issue binding of meshed cloth, first state with p. viii numbered and the misprint "sence" p. 19, third line from bottom. Later copies were issued with ribbed cloth bindings. This is the first of three novels following the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, a Midwestern Tom Sawyer whom Tarkington modelled on his mischievous nephews. Scarce in this condition. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 132-3. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front board in white, vignette to front board in white and black depicting Penrod and his dog. With an early glassine jacket and housed in a blue cloth chemise and slipcase. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout. Extremities faintly rubbed, superficial crack to front inner hinge, small abrasion to front free endpaper; glassine lightly edge-chipped and with small closed tear and crease to one panel. A bright copy in excellent condition.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday Page, 1914.
Price: US$825.06 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Tarkington's classic story in first edition, second state [viii not appearing on last page of contents, sence on p 19]. Jacket has slight darkening to the spine and nicks at the spine extremities, light soil. An attractive copy of an American classic.
Seller: Kerkhoff Books DIV KSI, Warsaw, IN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod (Signed First Printing). Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Very slight rubbing to cover corners, one-inch tear to List of Illustrations page. Binding is tight, pages are clean and unmarked, no other defects. A beautiful copy. This is the first issue, second state, with misspelled "sence" on page 19 (Russo and Sullivan, p. 29) . SIGNED AND INSCRIBED by the author on the first endpaper: "Gladly inscribed for Mr. J. Christian Bay, by Booth Tarkington, Indianapolis, December 22." . Jens Christian Bay was a Danish immigrant who became an authority on the history of the American Midwest and other specializations, while serving as librarian with the Library of Congress, University of Chicago, and for twenty years, the John Crerar Library, where he was chief librarian. He was a noted bookman and bibliophile who authored nearly 30 works. A highly collectible, unique copy of a classic. . 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 345 pages. Signed by Author. F2
Seller: Sweet Beagle Books, Bloomington, IN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday & Co, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$1206.28 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. Pp. 345. Blue cloth with pictorial front panel and lettering in white to the front board and spine. Short ink inscription to the front endpaper, with blue ink stamp name to the paste-down and again to the last page of text. A clean and bright copy in a tight binding. The dust jacket a bit darkened at the edges, light soiling to upper cover, light wear to the edges and a few short tears and creases around the spine head. First edition, first issue, meeting all the first issue points. Nice copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, N.Y., 1914.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. viii unnumbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. [x], 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. First edition of Tarkington's most famous book, a classic of boyhood. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to the publisher, "Gladly inscribed for Russell Doubleday by Booth Tarkington. April 9th 1914, Indianapolis." Russell Doubleday (1872-1949) was the brother of Frank Nelson Doubleday and served variously as advertising manager, vice-president, secretary and a director of the Doubleday publishing firm. Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 132-133; Russo & Sullivan, pp. 29-33 Publisher's pictorial blue mesh cloth (Johnson's first binding), lettered in white. Spine darkened, rubbing at head and tale of spine, closed tear to cloth at head of spine Illustrated by Gordon Grant. [x], 345 pp. 1 vols. 8vo First edition, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. viii unnumbered.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth; Grant, Gordon. PENROD. Doubleday, Page and Company, Garden City, New York, 1914.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first state of this classic of US American boyhood, featuring coming of age adventures in the midwest - in the scarce original dust jacket. PENROD is often compared to Mark Twain's tales of boyhood, especially THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. This is an excellent copy, rarely found in such a nice dust jacket, and with highly desirable provenance. 7.25'' x 5''. Original white-lettered blue cloth. In original unclipped ($1.25) pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated by Grant in black and white throughout. "viii" present on the appropriate page; "sence" on p. 19. x, 345, [1] pages. Doheny's gilt goatskin bookplate on front pastedown. Book with slight soiling to boards and small repair to spine head. Jacket beautifully intact with light soil and a few shallow closed tears primarily at spine ends. Very good plus in very good plus jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Penrod. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Gordon Grant. First issue with "sence" for "sense" on p. 19 and with the Roman numeral "viii" present at end of contents page. Publisher's blue cloth, front board decoratively stamped in black and white, front board and spine lettered in white, in the original dust jacket. Cloth spine a bit toned and rubbed; light rubbing, soiling to boards. Minor occasional thumbsoiling in text. The sleeved dust jacket is clipped on all corners (price of $1.25 is present), has a lightly toned spine, some toning and soiling to the facing panels; a few tears (two lengthy ones on the base of the rear panel) and corresponding tape reinforcement on the verso.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth.. Penrod.. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: 345 [1] pp. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 8vo, publisher's decorated blue cloth in dust jacket and quarter morocco slipcase (but lacking a chemise). First edition, first issue. Tiny bookseller's ticket to front pastedown; else a near fine copy with a little rubbing to the bottom of the spine in a bright, sharp, unworn dust jacket with a tiny closed tear at the bottom of the backstrip. A beautiful copy. The Bradley Martin copy, with printed slip laid in.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$2244.83 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, in the first issue binding of meshed cloth, and the first state with p. viii numbered and the misprint "sence" p. 19, third line from bottom. Later copies were issued with ribbed cloth bindings. This is the first of three novels following the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, a Midwestern Tom Sawyer whom Tarkington modelled on his mischievous nephews. Scarce in the jacket. Included is a first edition copy of An Overwhelming Saturday: A "Penrod" Story (New York: International Magazine Company, 1913, original wrappers), a Penrod story issued separately and some months before the book and with slightly different text. Blanck, Peter Parley to Penrod, pp. 132-3. Octavo. Original blue cloth, titles to spine and front cover in white, vignette to front cover in white and black depicting Penrod and his dog. With dust jacket. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. Black and white frontispiece and illustrations in the text throughout. A fine copy, in very good jacket, spine panel lightly soiled, minor chipping at extremities, without repair or restoration.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. First Edition, with all points. Publisher's light blue mesh cloth, titles and illustration on upper board and spine, spine titles a bit rubbed out, spine tips and corners gently rubbed, but generally a bright, sharp copy; the scarce and fragile jacket is soiled with a few chips, creases, short tears, enclosed in a custom cloth sheath with a gilt-embossed morrocco spine label. With a former bookseller description laid in. Inscribed on the FFEP, "Gladly inscribed for Mr. Slocum, Booth Tarkington." Myles Standish Slocum (1887-1956) was a noted book collector, descended directly from Myles Standish on one side and from John Carter Brown on the other.
Seller: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth.. Penrod.. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, 1914.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 345 [1] pp. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 8vo, publisher's decorated blue cloth in dust jacket and custom slipcase. First edition, first state. Russo & Sullivan, p. 29. Tiny bookseller's label to front pastedown; else a very near fine copy with slight rubbing to the bottom edge; in a sharp, bright, unchipped jacket with a tiny closed tear to the bottom of the backstrip. The H. Bradley Martin copy.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.