Inscribed to His Secretary, Pre-Publication
Penrod Jashper.
New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1929.
Price: $1,750.00
About the item
First edition, inscribed one day before publication date. Illustrated by Gordon Grant. 321pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Inscribed to His Secretary, Pre-Publication. Publisher's blue cloth, in a fine pictorial dust jacket by Gordon Grant. Very minor wear to jacket.
Item #321044
Inscribed to Tarkington's amanuensis/secretary Elizabeth (Betty) Totter, who, during the author's growing blindness, seems to have taken down this novel by dictation, and probably prepared it for publication as well: "For Betty, who worked so long and hard on this book, in and out of hospitals, from the grateful and devoted Booth Tarkington, Kennebunkport Spt. 12, 1929" She is the dedicatee of his novel Rumblin Galleries.
