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Penrod
by Tarkington, Booth
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Not Issued
- Seller
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Manlius, New York, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Hardcover Book. Good. No dust jacket, as issued. Covers rubbed and minor fraying at edges, tips and spine ends. Tips bumped. Previous owner's name and date (Dec. 24, 1914) on free endpaper. Pages show light aging. Blue cloth with white lettering to spine, white lettering and pictorial inset (boy on fence, dog below) to front board. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. First Edition with 1914 date on title and copyright pages, but not first state ("sense" on p. 19). A nice copy overall.
Synopsis
Penrod is a collection of comic sketches by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Booth Tarkington that was first published in 1914. The book follows the trials and misadventures of Penrod Schofield, an eleven-year-old boy growing up in the pre-World War I Midwestern United States, in a similar vein to Tom Sawyer. Penrod establishes the characters and the relationships between them who go on to appear in two further books, Penrod and Sam (1916) and Penrod Jashber (1929).
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Details
- Bookseller
- Limestone Village Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1535
- Title
- Penrod
- Author
- Tarkington, Booth
- Illustrator
- Grant, Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Book
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition/Second State
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page and Co.
- Place of Publication
- Garden City, N.Y.
- Date Published
- 1914
- Pages
- 345
- Size
- 20 cm
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- 1900-1918; 1900-1949; Boys; Classics; Fiction; General; History; Humorous fiction; Indiana; Literary
Terms of Sale
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Returns accepted for 15 days after receipt of book if book does not meet condition as stated in the description.
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