The Magnificent Ambersons

by Tarkington, Booth

Booth Tarkington’s The Magnificent Ambersons is the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which includes The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). The novel and trilogy trace the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in an upscale neighborhood, inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place. Set between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America, the decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, who derived power not from family names but by action.

The Magnificent Ambersons won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for novel and is ranked 99th on Modern Library’s “100 Best” English-language novels of the 20th century. In 1942, Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons.

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Doubleday, Page first published The Magnificant Ambersons in 1918. The title page and copyright page of the 516-page first editions state “1918” with no additional printings listed. The first issue dust jacket states the original price of $1.40.

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1918 on main title page and copyright page(a)issue points(Merle Johnson 4th Ed-pg490),(b).white paper vs. mixed or Cheaper paper.(c)measuring 1 1/8 inch across instead of the 1 inch of the cheap stuff...TRUE 1st EDITION 1st State(printing)..laid in and ready to be glued there A SIGNED PAGE tight,maybe read once.The covers are MEDIUM redish brown(not red or dk brown),the trick to 1st… Read more about this item
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Charles Scribner's Sons. Near Fine. 1921. Hardcover. A little rubbing to extremities of blue cloth covers, no other defects. This is a beautiful copy of the scarce edition by Scribner, published just three years after the first edition. . Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the book is the basis for the 1942 film of the same name,… Read more about this item
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The Magnificent Ambersons, Booth Tarkington. Published by The Franklin Library, Franklin Center, Pennsylvania, 1977. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 298pp.; illustrated by Roy Andersen. Full green leather with gilt titles to banded spine and gilt design front and rear; all edges gilt; moire endpapers with matching ribbon page marker. Smyth sewing and concealed muslin joints; printed on archival paper. Limited… Read more about this item
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Doubleday, Page & Co. 1st Edition. First edition, 1918. Book very good, with slight edgewear, slight rubbing along front joint, slight staining on top edge of pages, slight discoloration on end-papers, slightly shelf-cocked. No DJ. Illustrated with frontispiece and 7 b&w plates by Arthur William Brown.
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