Title: Four inscribed volumes by Booth Tarkington Author: Tarkington, Booth Place: Garden City, NY Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Date: Various dates Description: 4 volumes. (8vo), original cloth, illustrated jackets. First Editions. Includes: Wanton Mally: A Gay Romance of England in the Days of Charles the Merry. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Top front flap of dust jacket reads "4th Edition," with a $2.00 price. 1932. Young Mrs. Greeley. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. 1929. The Lorenzo Bunch. Inscribed by the author on the title page. 1936. Rumbin Galleries. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 1937. Four first editions, all inscribed by Booth Tarkington, most to author Jerome Peltier. Tarkington is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Lot Amendments Condition: All jackets unclipped; general light wear to jackets with some rubbing, occasional minor chips or closed tears to edges; some light wear to bindings; all volumes very good. Item number: 299137
Title: Four inscribed volumes by Booth Tarkington Author: Tarkington, Booth Place: Garden City, NY Publisher: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. Date: Various dates Description: 4 volumes. (8vo), original cloth, illustrated jackets. First Editions. Includes: Wanton Mally: A Gay Romance of England in the Days of Charles the Merry. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. Top front flap of dust jacket reads "4th Edition," with a $2.00 price. 1932. Young Mrs. Greeley. Inscribed by the author on the half-title page. 1929. The Lorenzo Bunch. Inscribed by the author on the title page. 1936. Rumbin Galleries. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. 1937. Four first editions, all inscribed by Booth Tarkington, most to author Jerome Peltier. Tarkington is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered America's greatest living author. Lot Amendments Condition: All jackets unclipped; general light wear to jackets with some rubbing, occasional minor chips or closed tears to edges; some light wear to bindings; all volumes very good. Item number: 299137
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