TARKINGTON, Booth.

£575 · Offered by Peter Harrington · No longer available

Penrod. First edition, first printing, first issue binding of meshed cloth, first state with p. viii numbered and the misprint "sence" p. 19, third line from bottom. Later copies were issued with ribbed cloth bindings. This is the first of three novels following the misadventures of Penrod Schofield, a Midwestern Tom Sawyer whom Tarkington modelled on his mischievous nephews. Scarce in this condition.

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