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Lot 46

Sale 1097 - Fine Printed Books & Manuscripts, Including Americana
Lots 1-410
Nov 8, 2022 9:00AM CT
Lots 411-717
Nov 9, 2022 9:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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[BINDINGS & SETS]. TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). The Works. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922.


16 volumes (of 27, lacking vols. XVII-XXVII), 8vo (213 x 130 mm). Numerous illustrations. (Some toning.) Contemporary half red morocco, spines gilt, top edges gilt, others uncut (some light chipping and rubbing to extremities, rear cover vol. XV detached). LIMITED EDITION, number 549 of 1,075 copies of the "Seawood Edition," SIGNED BY TARKINGTON in vol. I.

[With:] TARKINGTON, Booth (1869-1946). Penrod and Sam. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1916. 8vo (186 x 120 mm). Numerous illustrations by Worth Brehm. (Some light toning.) 20th-century half brown morocco gilt, one original cloth cover bound in (some light wear, joints starting). FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY TARKINGTON on a leaf tipped-in at front regarding a meeting honoring Tarkington at the Yale Club held on 24 November 1916, and additionally signed by 13 others, including: Publisher Alexander Grosset; journalist Christopher Darlington Morley; publisher Russell Doubleday; author Edgar French Strother; and Burton J. Hendrick.


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