Author: TARKINGTON, Booth
Title: Penrod
Description: New York, Grosset & Dunlap, n.y. Hardcover. Illustrations by Gordon Grant. 8vo. Light green cloth with dark green lettering and rules. 306pp. Frontispiece, 11 full-page line drawings. Very good. Minor binding edgewear, with discreet expert mend at heaf of spine; else tight and internally near fine. Tight and nice undated reprint edition of the 1914 Hoosier classic comic sketches, the best-known book of this prolific Indiana Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and playwright (1869-1946) -- and on the half-title page he inscribes and signs it: "Inscribed, with pleasure, / for Mr. John H. Ball, / Booth Tarkington, / 1939. .

Keywords: American Literature


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