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	1.	TARKINGTON, BOOTH Monsieur Beaucaire. Illustrated by C.D. Williams. New York, McClure, Phillips & Co., 1900 Hard Cover 128 pages, plates, cloth, very good. Booth Tarkington (Newton Booth Tarkington), (1869-1946, American author, b. Indianapolis. His most characteristic and popular works were his genial novels of life in small Middle Western towns, including The Gentleman from Indiana (1899), The Conquest of Canaan (1905), and the trilogy Growth (1927), made up of Turmoil (1915), The Magnificent Ambersons (1918; Pulitzer Prize), and The Midlander (1923). Alice Adams (1921; Pulitzer Prize), considered by some his best novel, tells of the frustrated ambitions of a romantic lower-middle-class girl. He wrote several amusing novels of boyhood and adolescence, the most notable being Penrod (1914) and Seventeen (1916). His plays include a dramatization of his own historical romance Monsieur Beaucaire (1901) and Clarence (1921).' Price: 20.00 USD
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	2.	TARKINGTON, BOOTH The conquest of Canaan. A Novel. New York, Harper & Brothers, 1905 Hard Cover Lucius Hitchcock Writer and playwright, born in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA, Tarkington (1869-1946) is best known for the novels, The Magnificent Ambersons (1918) and Alice Adams (1921), as well as for his children's novels, such as Penrod (1914) and Seventeen (1916). He lived in Kennebunkport, Maine. Price: 20.00 USD
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