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by Booth Tarkington Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition, early state: "sence" for "sense" page 19, page "viii" unnumbered. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. Owner's name and address to front free endsheet, else a very good plus copy with mild soiling, very light wear; in blue textured cloth with debossed cream lettering and circular inset paste-on illustration (in superb condition); no dust jacket. Tarkington's brilliantly witty and enduringly popular comic portrait of boyhood in a small Midwestern city, immeasurably enhanced by Grant's pitch-perfect line drawings; in the front cover inset, Duke the dog's tail wags over the edge of the circle. FREE SHIPPING TO THE USA PLEASE VIEW FOR MORE GREAT FIRST EDITION BOOKS THANKS! |