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Your amiable uncle; letters to his nephews / by Booth Tarkington, illustrated with his original sketches.
LIBRA PS2973 .A4 1949
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS2973 .A428
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
- Standardized Title:
- Correspondence. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946--Correspondence.
- Tarkington, Booth.
- Tarkington, Booth, 1869-1946.
- Genre:
- Correspondence.
- Personal correspondence.
- Physical Description:
- 192 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : illustrations, portrait ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Place of Publication:
- Indianapolis ; New York : The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc. Publishers, [1949]
- Notes:
- "First Edition."
- "These letters were written by Booth Tarkington in 1903 and 1904, during his first trip abroad, to his Jameson nephews, John (aged fourteen), Donald (aged twelve) and Booth (aged one). Many years later 'Penrod' was dedicated 'by a grateful uncle' to the same three boys."--Publisher's Foreword.
- Blue cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Blue and white illustrated endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 352751
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