Monsieur Beaucaire.
New York: McClure, Phillips, & Co., 1900.
8vo, 127, (1), pp. frontispiece and five other illustrations by C.D. Williams in two colors with captioned tissue guards. Publisher's red cloth, lettered in gilt. A very good copy, faint spotting to the cloth, front free endpaper splitting at hinge but holding. Custom quarter leather slipcase.
§ First edition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's second novel which was adapted twice into film, the first starring Rudolph Valentino in 1924 and the second starring Bob Hope and Joan Caulfield in 1946. Tarkington was one of only four novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once. Item #126985
Price: $125.00