This popular American novelist and dramatist is one of the few writers to have won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice, in 1919 and 1922, for his works The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. The majority of Tarkington's work consists of satirical studies of the American class system.
New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. First edition, first issue with publisher's seal measuring 1/2inch. The Duke inpersonating a Barber impersonating a Duke. Tarkington's amusing tale of Eighteenth-century Bath and the young French Duke of Orleans who, while impersonating a barber, is presented to Bath society as a duke..... Read More about Monsieur Beaucaire
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First edition. Read More about Penrod Jashber
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Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First Edition, Later state of the first edition, with "sense" on p. 19, and with p. "viii" unnumbered. Signed with inscription and sketch by Tarkington. beautifully and warmly inscribed with a full page inscription and drawing by the author (dated Kennebunkport, Aug..... Read More about Penrod
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Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition, mixed state, with "sence" on p. 19, but with p. viii unnumbered. First edition of Tarkington's most famous book, a classic of boyhood. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to the publisher, "Gladly inscribed for Russell Doubleday by Booth Tarkington..... Read More about Penrod
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. First edition, first issue, with the publisher’s seal measuring one-half inch. The Duke inpersonating a Barber impersonating a Duke. After years of collecting rejection slips, Booth Tarkington’s first published work The Gentleman from Indiana (1899) made him “the most famous young man in..... Read More about Monsieur Beaucaire
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. First edition, with the publisher's seal at the back measuring one-half inch. Tarkington's amusing tale of Eighteenth-century Bath and the young French Duke of Orleans who, while impersonating a barber, is presented to Bath society as a duke, all in pursuit of romance..... Read More about Monsieur Beaucaire
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First edition, [October, 1905]. INSCRIBED. Inscribed "From the Proud Center of the author-Booth Tarkington to the doctor Christmas 1905." Read More about The Conquest of Canaan
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1925. First edition. Inscribed. Inscribed on flyleaf "Dec. 29, 1925. Apologetically and affectionately for Mrs Judah from Booth Tarkington." Read More about Women
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Garden City, N.Y: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. First edition, first state, with folio 'viii' and 'sence' on page 19, line 23. Tarkington's most famous book, a classic of boyhood. Read More about Penrod
Price: $400
New York: Doubleday & McClure Co, 1899. First edition, first state with “so pretty” on p. 245, line 16. A very attractive copy of Tarkington's first book. Read More about The Gentleman from Indiana
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. No. 363 of 377 copies, signed by the author. Read More about The Midlander
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday Page & Company, 1922. Number 816 of the Seawood edition of 1075 numbered and registered copies, each with a signed portrait in Volume One. Read More about The Works of
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