Alice Adams.

TARKINGTON, Booth.

Item Number: 142461

Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1921.

First edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, basis for the film starring Katharine Hepburn. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery, gilt titles and ruling to the spine, raised bands, gilt ruled to the front and rear panels, gilt signature to the front panel, inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated by Arthur William Brown. In fine condition. An exceptional presentation.

In a small Midwestern town in the wake of World War I, Alice Adams delightedly finds herself being pursued by Arthur Russell, a gentleman of a higher social class in life. Desperate to keep her family’s lower-middle-class status a secret, she and her parents concoct various schemes to keep their family afloat. Though the realities of her situation eventually reveal themselves and her relationship with Arthur fizzles, Alice’s acceptance of this leads her to seek out work to support her family with an admirable resiliency. An enchanting and authentic tale of a family’s aspirations to seek more out of life, Alice Adams reveals the strength of the human spirit and its incredible ability to evolve. It was the basis for George Stevens’s major motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in her Oscar-nominated leading role.