1910s Leather Volume Set, the Works of Booth Tarkington, Signed, Limited Edition - 16 Books

Description

Title: The Works of Booth Tarkington.
Author: Booth Tarkington.
Publisher: Doubleday, Page and Company.
Origin: New York.
Publication date: 1918. … more Title: The Works of Booth Tarkington.
Author: Booth Tarkington.
Publisher: Doubleday, Page and Company.
Origin: New York.
Publication date: 1918.
Edition: Autograph Edition.
Limitation: #19 of 565 copies.

Description: 6103 Pp. 8vo. Complete in 12 volumes (v). 16 v. present. 3/4 Burgundy Levant Morocco and cloth boards, gilt title/design ornaments spine covers, gilt upper leaf edges, marble endpapers, black/white and color plates at frontispieces. Limitation page in each book, volume one distinguished by Author's signature. Bound by Stikeman of New York.

Measures: 1.5-1.75 each (22 overall) W x 5.75 D x 8.5 H inches
Approx. weight: 27 pounds.

Title(s), p.
V1: The Gentleman from Indiana, 504 p.
V2: The Two Vanrevels, 313 p.
V3: The Quest of Quesnay, 321 p.
V4: The Flirt, 377 p.
V5: Penrod, 345 p.
V6: Penrod and Sam, 356 p.
V7: In the Arena, 278 p.
V8: Harlequin and Columbine, 403 p.
V9: Monsieur Beaucaire, 427 p.
V10: The Turmoil, 453 p.
V11: The Conquest of Canaan, 425 p.
V12: Seventeen, 358 p.
V13: The Magnificent Ambersons, 516 p.
V14: Ramsey Milholland, 218 p.
V15: Alice Adams, 434 p.
V16: Gentle Julia, 375 p.

About the author: Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his Pulitzer Prize* winning novels The Magnificent Ambersons (*1919) and Alice Adams (*1922), both included- v13 & 16. He is one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner, John Updike, and Colson Whitehead. In the 1910s and 1920s he was considered the United States' greatest living author. Several of his stories were adapted to film.

During the first quarter of the 20th century, Tarkington, along with Meredith Nicholson, George Ade, and James Whitcomb Riley helped to create a Golden Age of literature in Indiana. (Wiki)

About the binder: Post William Matthews retirement, Henry Stikeman's repute as the best American binder rose, he exhibited "extraordinary skill . . . in design, inlaying, and tooling." (Maser Collection) As with this set, Stikeman's firm did high-end publisher's bindings as "bread and butter" work, and alternatively was commissioned to execute luxurious gilt-tooled bindings for collectors. less