Little Orvie / by Booth Tarkington ; illustrated by George Brehm.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.

Contributor:

Brehm, George, 1878-1966, illustrator.

Country Life Press, printer.

Doubleday, Doran & Company, publisher.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Families--Humor.

Genre:

Fiction.

Humor.

Domestic fiction.

Novels -- New York (State) -- Garden City -- 20th century.

Novels.

Penn Provenance:

Billy (inscription) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 383 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Manufacture:

Garden City, N.Y. : Printed at the Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1934.

Notes:

"First Edition."

Numerous illustrations by George Brehm on half-title, title-page, table of contents, list of illustrations and throughout the text.

"This is the latest of Booth Tarkington's thirty-eight books ... as publishers of Mr. Tarkington's first book and having the peculiarly personal relationship that always exists between author and publisher through all the years since the original happy event, we have developed an admiration for him that is almost idolatry and an affection that grows with time."--Publisher's Note.

Green cloth boards. Front cover divided into nine panels; center panel has green-stamped illustration showing a boy and dog. Spine green stamped.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has ms. inscription: "Billy from Mother March 7th - 1935" on the front free endpaper.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Culture Class Collection copy "Inscribed, with pleasure, Booth Tarkington. Indianapolis, Jan. 3, 1935".

Other Format:

Online version: Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946. Little Orvie.

OCLC:

1227062