SKU: BBB-0271
FICTION - CLASSIC AMERICAN LITERATURE - COMING-OF-AGE - HUMOR
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William
| Author | Booth Tarkington |
| Publisher | Bantam Books / Harper & Brothers |
| Year Published | 1957 |
| Edition | Bantam Books — 5th printing March 1957 (novel originally pub. 1916) |
| Binding | Paperback (mass market) |
| Condition | Fair–Good |
| Genre | FICTION / Classic American Literature / Coming-of-Age / Humor |
| BriteBound SKU | BBB-0271 |
About This Book
Seventeen: A Tale of Youth and Summer Time and the Baxter Family, Especially William by Booth Tarkington. A Bantam Book published by arrangement with Harper & Brothers. Copyright 1915, 1916 by the Metropolitan Magazine Company; Copyright 1943, 1944 by Booth Tarkington. All rights reserved. Bantam Books, Inc., 25 West 48th Street, New York 36, N.Y. Printing History: Harper edition published March 1916; Grosset and Dunlap edition published September 1917; Harper School edition published April 1932; 4th printing January 1950; 5th printing (f—, s—ftbn) March 1957. Price: 35¢. Catalog number F1356. Cover description: tan/gold tones with 1950s illustration of a lounging young man and a girl with a straw hat. Booth Tarkington was a two-time Pulitzer Prize winner (The Magnificent Ambersons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922). Seventeen is one of his most beloved works. Cover shows heavy wear and soiling; interior yellowed — condition Fair to Good.