Description: (Modern Fiction First Edition) Tarkington, Booth: The Plutocrat: Hardcover. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY. 1927. 1st Edition, 1st Printing. Very Good- This is a stated First Edition. This book is in Very Good- condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have bumping, rubbing, wear and several small edge nicks, tears and spots of fraying to the spine ends and corners. There is a square pictorial pastedown title on the front cover, and a rectangular pictorial title on the spine of the book cover. There is rubbing and wear to the front pastedown and a couple of nicks and rubbing to the spine pastedown. The text pages are clean and bright. "Tarkington was one of the more popular American novelists of his time. His The Two Vanrevels and Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of nine times. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as well known as Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Much of Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed studies of the American class system and its foibles. He himself came from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much of its wealth after the Panic of 1873. Today, he is best known for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles filmed in 1942. It is included in the Modern Library's list of top-100 novels. The second volume in Tarkington's Growth trilogy, it contrasted the decline of the "old money" Amberson dynasty with the rise of "new money" industrial tycoons in the years between the American Civil War and World War I. " (from Wikipedia) 3 132 #45417 $20
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Author: Tarkington, Booth
Book Title: The Plutocrat
Cover: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Publication Year: 1927
Place Published: Garden City, NY
Pages: 543p.
Topic: Modern Fiction First Edition
Format: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
Printing: 1st Printing
Book Condition: Very Good-
Defects: This is a stated First Edition. This book is in Very Good-, condition and is lacking a dust jacket. The book covers have, bumping, rubbing, wear and several small edge nicks, tears and, spots of fraying to the spine ends and corners. There is a, square pictorial pastedown title on the front cover, and a, rectangular pictorial title on the spine of the book cover., There is rubbing and wear to the front pastedown and a couple, of nicks and rubbing to the spine pastedown. The text pages are, clean and bright. "Tarkington was one of the more popular, American novelists of his time. His The Two Vanrevels and, Mary's Neck appeared on the annual best-seller lists a total of, nine times. The Penrod novels depict a typical upper-middle, class American boy of 1910 vintage, revealing a fine, bookish, sense of American humor. At one time, his Penrod series was as, well known as Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. Much of, Tarkington's work consists of satirical and closely observed, studies of the American class system and its foibles. He, himself came from a patrician Midwestern family that lost much, of its wealth after the Panic of 1873. Today, he is best known, for his novel The Magnificent Ambersons, which Orson Welles, filmed in 1942. It is included in the Modern Library's list of, top-100 novels. The second volume in Tarkington's Growth, trilogy, it contrasted the decline of the "old money" Amberson, dynasty with the rise of "new money" industrial tycoons in the, years between the American Civil War and World War I. " (from, Wikipedia)
Binding: Hardcover
Subject: Modern Fiction First Edition
Place of Publication: Garden City, NY
Year Printed: 1927
Special Attributes: 1st Edition
