Penrod
Booth Tarkington, 1914
TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). Penrod. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914.

First edition of these classic tales of boyhood: rare in dust jacket. First state with page viii so numbered and with the 3rd line from the bottom of p.19 reading "sence"; first issue jacket without the reviews on the lower panel. Peter Parley to Penrod 132.

Octavo. Illustrated by Gordon Grant with chapter heading vignettes and full page illustrations. Original pictorial blue cloth (minor rubbing to spine ends and corners); dust jacket (spine panel toned, corners clipped shaving imprint on lower flap, some small chips and closed tears to fold ends). Custom clamshell box. Provenance: George Cosmatos (his sale, Sotheby's, New York, Jun 17, 2005, lot 308).