Tarkington | The Man From Home (Signed), Ephemera
Description: Booth Tarkington and Harry Leon Wilson. The Man from Home. New York and London: Harper and Brothers, 1908. Illustrated with black and white photographs. Inscribed by Booth Tarkington, dated 1940. Included with the volume is a clipped signature of William Hodge, a stage actor to whom Tarkington dedicated this book. Very good. Light rubbing to edges and corners of boards, head and tail of spine. Text block lightly age-toned.
Also included are the following:
1) A letter, signed by Tarkington, directed to Sylvia M. Heyl and dated June 26, 1922. Very good; paper creased from mailing, slightly age-toned.
2) ”Let’s Talk, Not Argue,” by Booth Tarkington. Multigraphed on three sheets of white wove paper, 8.5” x 11”, printed on one side only, stapled at upper left corner, 25 February 1941. First edition, scarce. Russo and Sullivan p. 139. An article urging nonpartisan support of President Roosevelt against Hitler, written for the Indiana Committee for National Defense. It appeared in “The Indianapolis Star,” February 27, 1941, and was published in “‘The Congressional Record’, Appendix, January 3-March 14, in extension of remarks of Hon. Joseph F. Guffey in the United States Senate, p. A 933.” Very good; folds, staple rusted, pages slightly age-toned. From the papers of Tarkington’s friend and amanuensis, Elizabeth Trotter.
3) An original photograph of Tarkington, taken c. 1940 and mounted on heavy card. The inscription reads “The Sydney Booths-- / Elderly workman, half / Booth, with ancient affection / Booth Tarkington.” With the photography studio’s information in the lower right corner of the photograph; a list of awards won by the studio printed on the verso. Very good. Photograph shows a few minor smudges and nicks. Board chipped at edges with a long closed tear at top margin. Both photograph and board are age-toned.
Novelist and playwright Booth Tarkington was the author of more than 45 books and winner of the Pulitzer Prize for two of his novels. His “great public and critical successes belonged to the decade 1914-1924...A 1921 Publisher’s Weeklypoll of booksellers named him the most significant of contemporary authors. In a Literary Digest contest in 1922 he was voted the greatest living American writer, and a New York Times poll of the same year put him on a list of the ten greatest contemporary Americans” (DAB).
Shelved in Room G. CX Consignment.
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Special Collections
Price: $600