Item #23572 The Gentleman from Indiana. Booth Tarkington.

The Gentleman from Indiana

New York: Doubleday & McClure Co., 1899. First edition. Hardcover. 384 pages. 20.5 x 14 cm. Tarkington's first novel and first edition/first state with "eye" and "so pretty" on p.245 and "brain" of Zeus on p.342. Also, in the earliest binding with the ear of corn on the spine pointing up. Ownership signature dated the year of publication. Tarkington, a Midwestern regionalist set much of his fiction in his native Indiana. BROCCOLI & CLARK p.369. Clean, fresh copy, tiny front cover spot. Orig. green cloth stamped in red and tan, spine gilt lettered. Teg green. Near fine in very good lined brown cloth chemise, and housed in a near fine brown morocco slipcase, spine sunned. Item #23572

Price: $475.00

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