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Author: Tarkington, Booth
Title: Eighteen volumes by Booth Tarkington
Place Published: Various places
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Date Published: Various dates
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18 volumes. Various bindings.

18 volumes by the American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams.

Includes:

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  Looking Forward and Others. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. FIRST EDITION. in dust jacket. Lovely copy of this book of essays.


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  Penrod. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, [nd]. GROSSET EDITION. in a dust jacket. Hardcover.


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  Penrod and Sam. Illustrated by Worth Brehm. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [ND]. GROSSET EDITION. In a dust jacket. Hardcover.


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  The Conquest of Canaan. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary owner signature on flyleaf. A very good example of the scarce dust jacket, missing some shallow chips at spine ends. Publisher‘s advert for this title laid in. Hardcover.


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  The Man from Home. With Illustrations from Scenes in the Play. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1908. FIRST EDITION. Some minor foxing to title page and frontispiece. Owner inscription on flyleaf. Very good copy with some minor rubbing to cloth. Hardcover.


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  Penrod and Sam. Illustrated by Worth Brehm. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. FIRST EDITION. First issue binding with publisher‘s name at base of spine in black lettering. Some light rubbing to white printing on front and spine. Else a clean, near fine copy, lacking the rare dust jacket, of the second Penrod book. Hardcover.


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  The Fighting Littles. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran and Company, 1941. FIRST EDITION. Bright dust jacket. Hardcover.


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  Beauty and the Jacobin. Illustrations by C.D. Williams. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1912. FIRST EDITION. Fine in a very good to near fine dust jacket with a few tiny chips at edges. Publisher‘s bookmark laid in. Hardcover.


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  Cherry. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. FIRST EDITION. An interesting copy, with Tarkington‘s inscription on front pastedown "the lesson of industry, of perseverance/Booth Tarkington." This appears to supply the caption to an original pen-and-ink illustration which has been pasted onto the opposite leaf. This illustration is also signed across the bottom by Tarkington. Red cloth soiled. Very good only.


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  His Own People. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1907. FIRST EDITION. Rebound in three-quarter dark blue morroco, stamped in gilt and red with heart designs on spine. Top edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. Owner signature on half title. Else a very good copy. Hardcover.


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  His Own People. New York: Doubleday, Page & Co, 1907. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by the author on verso of frontispiece in 1943. A very good to near fine copy in original red cloth (no jacket). Hardcover.


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  The Flirt. Illustrations by Clarence F. Underwood. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1913.. FIRST EDITION. Fine copy in original red cloth, gilt stamped. Fragments of rare original jacket laid in. Basis for the 1931 film The Bad Sister, directed by Hobart Henley and featuring Conrad Nagel, Zasu Pitts, Humphrey Bogart (in one of his earliest roles), and in their film debuts, Bette Davis and female lead Sydney Fox. A few years later Fox was dead at age 31, an apparent suicide, and Davis was one of Hollywood‘s top stars. Hardcover.


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  The Spring Concert. New York: The Ridgeway Company, [1916]. FIRST EDITION. Near fine copy in wrappers. A single short story probably issued as a promotional give-away. Paperback.


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  Monsieur Beaucaire. Illustrated by C.D. Williams. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. FIRST EDITION. First issue, with Gilliss Press seal on page after end of text exactly 1/2 inch in diameter. An interesting copy, with Tarkington‘s own bookplate on front pastedown, and the owner signature of Vincent Starrett on half-title page. Early gift inscription on a preliminary blank. Minor wear to original red cloth at spine ends. A very good copy in a protective cloth jacket. Author‘s second book. Hardcover.


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  Beasley‘s Christmas Party. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1909. FIRST EDITION. Inscribed by the author on a preliminary blank: "‘Christmas is the best time...‘ Booth Tarkington. December 1909." Additionally inscribed by his sister on the front flyleaf: "‘Sweetest Susan‘ with ‘A Happy Christmas‘--from the proud sister of the author Aunt Booth Tarkington Jameson" . Minor wear to cloth at spine ends. Very good in a good only example of the dust jacket missing a chip from center of spine panel. Hardcover.


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  Penrod. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. FIRST EDITION. Second issue with misprint "sence" on page 19, line 23, but lacking the folio "viii" on that page. Earliest binding of mesh cloth. Insribed on front flyleaf: "First copies of ‘Penrod‘ in as good condition as this are hard to find--at least they are for--Booth Tarkington. Inscribed for Mr. _____ Kennebunkport, August 6, 1934." Unfortunately since 1934, this copy become rather worn. Very good only, rubbed and worn, lacking the jacket. Hardcover.


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  Cherry. Illustrated. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1903. FIRST EDITION. Clean, near fine copy in original red cloth, gilt stamped. Hardcover.


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  Bimbo, the Pirate. A Comedy. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1926. FIRST EDITION. Near fine copy in wrappers. Paperback.


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  Gentle Julia. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1933. FIRST THUS. Originally published in 1922, this is the first printing in the "One-by-One Edition" effectively a collected edition of Tarkington‘ works. This copy is inscribed on the front flyleaf: "For Mrs. Frederick Sanborn, who so generously brought Figaro of Stonywall to a most grateful, Booth Tarkington , Kennebunkport, Oct. 12, 1934." Tarkington has also written on the front panel of the dust jacket: "See Chapter XIII and p. 189" and then on page 189 Tarkington has marked the relevant passage which describes a French Poodle. Laid into this copy is a card from Mrs. Sanborn‘s business, Stonywall Kennels, breeders of French Poodles, one of which was apparently the model for the dog described at length in chapter 13 of this book. Book somewhat foxed in places, otherwise very good. In a very good only dust jacket with some edgewear. Hardcover.


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  Alice Adams. Illustrations by Arthur William Brown. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, [1921]. GROSSET EDITION. Fine book in a fine bright dust jacket, which reproduces the artwork of the original first printing. One of the scarcest of the Pulitzer Prize novels. Hardcover.

Some general light wear; all volumes about very good or better.