Author: TARKINGTON, Booth
Title: Some Old Portraits: A Book About Art and Human Beings
Description: New York, Doubleday, Doran & Co, 1939. Hardcover. Small 4to. Brown cloth over beveled boards, pictorial dust jacket. xx, 249pp. Color plates. Near fine/very good. Jacket heavily edge chipped and edgeworn, but complete nonetheless; large armorial bookplate on front pastedown. Not the signed limited edition, but the scarce first trade edition. Large bold inscription in blue fountain pen by the author on the front flyleaf: "For / The Brooks Sisters / Terrence and John Jameson / and most gladly inscribed / by / Booth Tarkington / Christmastime, 1945. .

Keywords: American Literature


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