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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 (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, 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.
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.