Author: TARKINGTON, Booth
Title: Penrod
Description: Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. Hardcover. Illustrations by Gordon Grant. Small 8vo. Blue mesh cloth with white lettering and front board white and black circular pictorial stamping. 345pp. Frontispiece, 11 full-page called-for line drawings, numerous small line drawings. Very good. Mild edgewear, with spine lettering a tad rubbed only. A tight and attractive first edition, second state (and first state binding), with all proper points. Sharp copy of this Hoosier classic, with fun modern autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf (recto and verso) are fine, matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards boldly signed by four of the cast members from the 1951 musical film "On Moonlight Bay," based on "Penrod," and a 1953 sequel "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Front flyleaf (recto, top to bottom): DORIS DAY (1922-2019), who plays Marjorie Winfield, pens "love" and signs in black fineline; BILLY GRAY (born 1938), who plays Wesley Winfield, signs in black ballpoint and dates it 26 January 1990 at upper right. Front flyleaf (verso, top to bottom): RUSSELL ARMS (1920-2012), who plays Chester Finley, signs in blue ballpoint and dates it 5 September 1982 at upper right; and MARY WICKES (1910-95), who plays housekeeper Stella, signs in black fineline and dates it 30 November 1974 at upper right. A nice first extra-illustrated with four relevant film version mementos. Original signature transmittal envelopes for Gray, Arms and Wickes are laid in. RUSSO AND SULLIVAN 29. .
Keywords: American Literature Children's
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Title: Penrod
Description: Garden City, Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. Hardcover. Illustrations by Gordon Grant. Small 8vo. Blue mesh cloth with white lettering and front board white and black circular pictorial stamping. 345pp. Frontispiece, 11 full-page called-for line drawings, numerous small line drawings. Very good. Mild edgewear, with spine lettering a tad rubbed only. A tight and attractive first edition, second state (and first state binding), with all proper points. Sharp copy of this Hoosier classic, with fun modern autograph addition: Tipped to the front flyleaf (recto and verso) are fine, matching heavy stock 5" X 3" cards boldly signed by four of the cast members from the 1951 musical film "On Moonlight Bay," based on "Penrod," and a 1953 sequel "By the Light of the Silvery Moon." Front flyleaf (recto, top to bottom): DORIS DAY (1922-2019), who plays Marjorie Winfield, pens "love" and signs in black fineline; BILLY GRAY (born 1938), who plays Wesley Winfield, signs in black ballpoint and dates it 26 January 1990 at upper right. Front flyleaf (verso, top to bottom): RUSSELL ARMS (1920-2012), who plays Chester Finley, signs in blue ballpoint and dates it 5 September 1982 at upper right; and MARY WICKES (1910-95), who plays housekeeper Stella, signs in black fineline and dates it 30 November 1974 at upper right. A nice first extra-illustrated with four relevant film version mementos. Original signature transmittal envelopes for Gray, Arms and Wickes are laid in. RUSSO AND SULLIVAN 29. .
Keywords: American Literature Children's
Price: US$ 395.00 Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Manuscripts
- Book number: 45285
- Book number: 45285
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