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Claire Ambler
Claire Ambler
Booth Tarkington
1928 First Edition. Doubleday, Doran & Co. Inc., New York
Octavo. The first title issued under the new imprint of Doubleday, Doran & Co. and a top 10 book seller in 1928. 253pp., bound in blue cloth, yellow paper labels lettered in black to upper board and spine, top edge yellow, pictorial endpapers. Front tip bumped at the tail. In VERY GOOD condition sans dust jacket. Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 - May 19, 1949) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is, with William Faulkner and John Updike, one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for fiction more than once.