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Up For Sale Today is
The Hermit of Capri
by
John Steventon
(John S. Tarkington)
Hardcover. 8vo. Harper & Brothers. 1910. 135 pgs. Illustrated with Black and White Plates. First Edition/First Printing
Glassine DJ has shelf-wear, rubbing present to the DJ especially around the extremities (chips and missing pieces present to the extremities of the DJ). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks, binding tight and solid, boards lightly rubbed and worn.
Pen name of Judge John S. Tarkington, farther of novelist. Booth Tarkington. Both Tarkingtons made a long European tour in 1905 spending a month on Capri along with Booth's mother & first wife Louisa. The book Hermit of Capri is written as a series of letters to an unnamed woman, possibly to Booth Tarkington's first wife Louisa. John Tarkington was also interested in the occult & theosophy.
FROM ONLINE:
John Stevenson Tarkington (1832-1923) was born in Centerville, Indiana, the son of the Rev. Joseph Tarkington, a Methodist preacher (who served as pastor at Lawrenceburgh, Centerville, Brookville, Vincennes, and Greensburg) and Maria Slawson (Slauson).
John Tarkington graduated from Indiana Asbury University (later DePauw) in 1852, and earned an A. M. degree three years later. He moved to Indianapolis in 1852, served as private secretary to Governor Joseph A. Wright (1853-1857),then studied law in the offices of Albert G. Porter (later Governor). He set up his own law practice in 1855, and two years later married Elizabeth Booth, whose brother Newton Booth was then U.S. senator from California. They had two children, the author (Newton) Booth Tarkington (1869-1946), and a daughter, Mary Booth (nicknamed Haute—1861-1937), who married Ovid Butler Jameson.
Tarkington won a contested election for the Indiana General Assembly in 1863. Having served eight days as a private in one Indiana regiment in 1863, he helped to organize the 132nd Indiana Volunteers the next year, and served in it as captain and provost until the end of the Civil War.
Briefly after the war Tarkington practiced law in partnership with Oliver P. Morton and Elijah B. Martindale. In 1870 he was elected judge of the Fifth Circuit Court, serving Marion and Hancock Counties, and held the post for two years. In the later 1870s he practiced law alone. He retired early from his legal practice, and ran the safety deposit section of the Fletcher and Sharpe Bank. His first wife died in 1909, and a year later he married Mrs. Linda H. Schulz. He had a considerable literary bent, and did quite a bit of traveling. In his later years, under the compound pen-name John Steventon (apparently to avoid confusion with his famous son), he wrote and published two collections of essays, The Hermit of Capri (1910) and The Auto-Orphan (1913).
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Book formats and corresponding sizes |
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Name |
Abbreviations |
Leaves |
Pages |
Approximate cover size (width × height) |
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inches |
cm |
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folio |
2º or fo |
2 |
4 |
12 × 19 |
30.5 × 48 |
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quarto |
4º or 4to |
4 |
8 |
9½ × 12 |
24 × 30.5 |
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octavo |
8º or 8vo |
8 |
16 |
6 × 9 |
15 × 23 |
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duodecimo or twelvemo |
12º or 12mo |
12 |
24 |
5 × 7⅜ |
12.5 × 19 |
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sextodecimo or sixteenmo |
16º or 16mo |
16 |
32 |
4 × 6¾ |
10 × 17 |
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octodecimo or eighteenmo |
18º or 18mo |
18 |
36 |
4 × 6½ |
10 × 16.5 |
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trigesimo-secundo or thirty-twomo |
32º or 32mo |
32 |
64 |
3½ × 5½ |
9 × 14 |
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quadragesimo-octavo or forty-eightmo |
48º or 48mo |
48 |
96 |
2½ × 4 |
6.5 × 10 |
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sexagesimo-quarto or sixty-fourmo |
64º or 64mo |
64 |
128 |
2 × 3 |
5 × 7.5 |
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