[Rarebooks] For Sale: Book inscribed by Booth Tarkington to "Walker" Bush, 1934.

[Norman Kane]

TARKINGTON, BOOTH.  GENTLE JULIA.   Garden City: Doubleday, Doran & 
Co., 1933 (1922). Original cloth, approx. 7 3/4 X 5 inches, a very 
good copy.  SIGNED inscription by Tarkington, "Inscribed, at Miss 
Betty Trotter's request, for Walker Bush, and 'more power to him,' 
says one who at intervals, in Maine, watches him grow. Booth 
Tarkington, Kennebunkport, August 29, 1934."  (Miss Trotter was 
Tarkington's secretary.  Tarkington maintained a summer home in 
Kennebunkport for many years, as did - and still do - the Bushes. 
Young George was then 10 years old.) A remarkable 
memento.  $300.00     (Trade Discount Available)


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