Accession number
PML 187265
Creator
Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
Published
Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company, 1923.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
First American edition.
Illustrations and plates on frontispiece and pages 4, 10, 18, 26, 32, 42, 50, 58, 64, 68, 74, 80, 86, 94, 102, 110, 124, 126, 128, 130, 136, 144.
Kenneth Roberts assumed the pseudonym Milton Kilgallen; Booth Tarkington assumed Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot; and Hugh Kahler assumed Murgatroyd Elphinstone.
"The First Edition ... consists of 3127 copies, as follows: Twenty-seven on choicest domestic leaf, bound in teakwood, with leather hinges, number A to &, with the author's thumb-prints in red ink in each copy; Three thousand one hundred copies on American antique wove, bound in manila boards"--Colophon.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Illustrations and plates on frontispiece and pages 4, 10, 18, 26, 32, 42, 50, 58, 64, 68, 74, 80, 86, 94, 102, 110, 124, 126, 128, 130, 136, 144.
Kenneth Roberts assumed the pseudonym Milton Kilgallen; Booth Tarkington assumed Cornelius Obenchain Van Loot; and Hugh Kahler assumed Murgatroyd Elphinstone.
"The First Edition ... consists of 3127 copies, as follows: Twenty-seven on choicest domestic leaf, bound in teakwood, with leather hinges, number A to &, with the author's thumb-prints in red ink in each copy; Three thousand one hundred copies on American antique wove, bound in manila boards"--Colophon.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Description
xx, 147 pages, [4] numbered leaves of plates : illustrations 21 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Rudimentary drawing of a cowboy on horseback holding a weapon and facing the picture plane within a double border by Tarkington on front pastedown; inscription in brown ink by Kenneth Roberts on front pastedown below Tarkington's drawing: Old Western print, discovered by Professor Milton Killgallen [Roberts] showing Eastern hunter examinig his first wild turkey, and presented to James Boyd of Southern Pines by Kenneth L. Roberts, July 27th, 1927; rudimentary ink drawing of a middle aged woman standing beside an end table topped with a vase with flowers, wearing satirical interpretation of early modern dress, and bearing both a walking stick and a knife within a single border with the caption "MRS BRIDGISH (The Celebrated Clotress) as ROSALIND" on front flyleaf; inscription in ink on front flyleaf below rudimentary drawing: Fine drawing confiscated by Rev. T. M. Cumsch of Kennebunk in 1874 and lately discovered am [sic] among his effects. Reproduced for Mr. James Boyd by Booth Tarkington; rudimentary drawing of a light fixture juxtaposed with drawing of a bird standing beside a chick within a double border (a window?) with the call out "Don't scratch me! Scratch Mother!" emerging from the chick's beak on the topmost portion of the front flyleaf verso; inscription in ink on front flyleaf: Complete early Harrison gas-light assembly* collected by Dr. Eben S. Twitchett and now in the possession of Murgatroyd Elphinstone, Esq. Sketched for Mr. James Boyd of North Caroline, with Mr. Elphinstone's consent, by Hugh MacNair Kahler, Princeton, October 7, 1927, *This is the rare and genuine Woolworthshire gas glass, profusely warted and tinted an exquisite pale [illegible]. The network sustaining the unusual Roscoe Conkling brewed watchholder is delicately hand tatted in bile-green bétise.
Provenance
Bookplate of James Boyd; Carter Burden.
Binding
Brown paper boards with decorated and printed label on front panel with pictorial dust jacket.
Classification
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