TARKINGTON, BOOTH. 1869-1946. 3 titles: 1. Penrod. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1914. 8vo (185 x 128 mm). Original blue mesh cloth lettered in white, printed vignette, dust jacket. Rear joint cracked, light stain to title page, spotting to edges; jacket thumbsoiled, 2 cm closed tear to upper margin of upper panel, head of spine chipped. In custom clamshell box. 2. Penrod and Sam. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1916. 8vo (183 x 123 mm). Original green cloth lettered in white, printed vignette to upper cover. Spine weak, shelfwear. 3. Seventeen. New York: Harper & Bros., 1916. Original brick cloth stamped in gilt, dust jacket. Light toning and shelfwear; jacket creased and thumbsoiled, chipping with small loss to upper margin of upper panel and head of spine, lower right corner of lower panel. Booth Tarkington was considered America's greatest living author during the 1910s and 1920s. A native of Indiana, he set many of his works in the midwest, and the Penrod series was considered an American classic in the vein of Tom Sawyer. For further information on this lot please visit Bonhams.com For further information about this lot please visit the lot listing