6/20/2023 0 Comments Penrod by booth tarkington![]() ![]() Later state, with page viii not numbered "sense" correctly spelled on page 19 and no l in "perfect y" on p. Handsomely illustrated by Gordon Grant with 12 full-page drawings, including a frontispiece, plus vignettes on the fly title, half-title, and at the start of each chapter. of Penrod Schofield, a Midwestern Tom Sawyer whom Tarkington modelled on his mischievous. Black & white illustration on the cover, and white lettering on the spine and front cover are bright with NO flaking. Bound in the original blue ribbed cloth - with only a touch of rubbing at the spine ends. A very nice, tight copy, with "1914" printed at the foot of the title page. Penrod Schofield is always getting into scrapes of his own creation, and getting out of them by his willingness to tell tales of extraordinary inventiveness, i.e. Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1914. Booth Tarkington's 'Penrod' is considered a classic bit of Americana, a tale of the adventures of an 11-yr.-old boy growing up in the Midwest just after the turn of the 20th century. ![]()
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