TARKINGTON, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday Doran, Garden City, 1941.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: First edition. Near fine lacking the dustwrapper. Nicely Inscribed by the author at a later date. A very funny novel, published late in the author's career, about a loveable and eccentric family.

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

TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). The Fighting Littles. New York: Doubleday Doran, 1941, 1941.

Price: US$129.14 + shipping

Description: [Modern Literature] SIGNED FIRST EDITION. Octavo (21 x 15cm), pp.[8]; 304. Publisher's light blue cloth blocked in white to spine, without jacket. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR to flyleaf and warmly inscribed to John Booth on behalf of Elizabeth Trotter Jr (Betty Trotter). Slight lean, minor wear to cloth, spine toned. Very good. The American novelist and dramatist Booth Tarkington was a multi-Pulitzer Prize winner. Elizabeth Trotter was the author's literary assistant, researcher, contributor to The Atlantic magazine in the 1920s, and the dedicatee of Tarkington's Wanton Mally (1932).

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

Tarkington, Booth. The Fighting Littles. Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1941.

Price: US$246.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR and inscribed to Emily Fox on behalf of Betty Trotter on the free endpaper in bold ink, and dated by Tarkington on Christmas 1941. Jacket is bright, clean and whole save for two small chips at the spine corners not affecting the text, and protected by the Brodart cover. Scarce in the dust jacket, even scarcer signed.

Seller: Bibliodisia Books, IOBA, MWABA, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.