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.
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. First edition, first issue with publisher's seal measuring 1/2inch. 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. Author's First book. Read More Item Details for Monsieur Beaucaire Add to Wish List
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[1908]. Both were Indiana author and it was made into a movie in 1923. It wis the first movie credited to John Ford rather than Jack Ford. The play had been filmed as a silent movie in 1914 with Dustin Farnum, who had originated the role on Broadway in 1909..... Read More Item Details for Cameo Kirby A Play in Four Acts. ACT I ONLY Add to Wish List
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Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc, 1929. First edition. Read More Item Details for Penrod Jashber Add to Wish List
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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 Item Details for Penrod Add to Wish List
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New York: McClure, Phillips & Co, 1900. First edition, first issue, with the publisher’s seal measuring one-half inch. 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 America” and quickly led to the publication of..... Read More Item Details for Monsieur Beaucaire Add to Wish List
Item #226170
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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 Item Details for Monsieur Beaucaire Add to Wish List
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New York: Harper & Brothers, 1905. First edition, [October, 1905]. Inscribed "From the Proud Center of the author-Booth Tarkington to the doctor Christmas 1905." Read More Item Details for The Conquest of Canaan Add to Wish List
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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 Item Details for Penrod Add to Wish List
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np: nd. Read More Item Details for Portrait photograph of Tarkington signed in pencil on mount below photo by photographer A. H. McLean and by Tarkington over edge of mat onto mount Add to Wish List
Item #47230
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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 Item Details for The Works of Add to Wish List
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Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1923. No. 363 of 377 copies, signed by the author. Read More Item Details for The Midlander Add to Wish List
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