Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 243

Price Realized: $ 960
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. Alice Adams. 8vo, publisher's maroon cloth lettered in black; rear hinge cracked; pictorial dust jacket, chipped with some loss mainly to spine panel ends (affecting a few letters) and upper rear panel, browned with scattered soiling, L-shaped tear along and through spine panel, corners clipped but $1.75 price intact. Garden City, 1921
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inscribed first edition with transposed words on page 419. In second issue dust jacket with reviews on the rear panel. "Inscribed with pleasure for Mr. W. Frank Yowes[?] by Booth Tarkington. Indianapolis, December 22, 1945." Tarkington's second Pulitzer Prize winning novel. The dust jacket elusive in any condition.