signed Hardcover
1900 · New York
by Tarkington, Booth
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1900. Reprint. Hardcover. Very good/very good. SIGNED by the author's wife. 115pp. Duodecimo [19.5 cm] Magenta cloth over boards with blue lettering and embellishments on the backstrip and front board. With a minor slant to the spine, and gentle bumping to the spine ends. The endpapers are a bit darkened. In a dust jacket, with light soiling and periodic small closed tears and chips in the edges. Russo and Sullivan, p. 7. The second published novel by Booth Tarkington. This copy is inscribed by Booth Tarkington's wife. The inscription states, "Dear____. This was my husband's first book. I send it to you with kindest remembrances. Sincerely yours, Susannah Tarkington. April 1938. (Inventory #: 49057)