first edition Hardcover
1928 · Garden City
by Tarkington, Booth
Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1928. First edition, limited. Hardcover. Good +. SIGNED. Duodecimo [20 cm] American Japan vellum over boards. Top edge gilt; other edges rough-trimmed. Yellow, blue, and white pictorial endpapers. Top edge gilt. The extremities are a bit darkened and soiled, and the spine is rolled. The spine ends are bumped. Currie, p. 86. To commemorate the founding of Doubleday, Doran & Company, Incorporated, by the union of Doubleday, Page & Co. and George H. Doran Company this first volume over the new imprint has been autographed by the author and publisher. One in an edition of 500 copies. This copy is signed by Booth Tarkington and the publishers below the commemoration. (Inventory #: 49229)