PENROD

by Booth Tarkington, Gordon Grant

$1,200 · Offered by Type Punch Matrix

First edition

Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1914. First edition, first state of this classic of US American boyhood, featuring coming of age adventures in the midwest — in the scarce original dust jacket. Very good plus in very good plus jacket. Item #39145 PENROD is often compared to Mark Twain's tales of boyhood, especially THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER. This is an excellent copy, rarely found in such a nice

• Printing: first

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