Booth Tarkington. The Gentleman From Indiana. Doubleday Mclure, 1900.

Price: US$136.45 + shipping

Condition: Fair

Description: original green cloth, spine is chipped at edges and center and has been re-backed, owner names and bookplate in rear, fragile binding, inscribed by author with a Lewis Carroll quote from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, with all faults

Seller: Fantastic Book Discoveries, Cockeysville, MD, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA [SIGNED]. Doubleday & McClure Co, New York, 1900.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 384 pages, VG; bound in full green cloth, spine has gilt lettering, front cover has red and yellow tooling and lettering; binding has minimal wear along the top and bottom edges, has minor bumping on the fore edge corners; pages have faded dark green coloring along the top edge, have minor age toning, have minimal crease marks; signed by the author on the inner front cover; shelved Case 7. 1323323. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Tarkington, Booth. The Gentleman from Indianapolis. Doubleday McClure, New York, 1900.

Price: US$225.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First edition of the author's first book, being the "Author's Autograph Edition" limited to 1000 signed copies. Later state of the first edition. This copy is number 41. 8vo, pp. viii, [2], 384; original pictorial green cloth stamped in red and white, top edges stained green, limitation statement signed by Tarkington on front pastedown, some light wear and rubbing. "Politics and love in a growing mid-west town of the pre-Babbitt era when moonlight still created glamour." The first printing of the first edition was published in 1899 and The Author's Autograph Edition, signed by Tarkington on a special plate affixed to the front pastedown, was issued in 1900. The Gentleman from Indiana was Tarkington's debut book.

Seller: A Turn of the Page Books, Fishers, IN, U.S.A.