Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of The Magnificent Ambersons.
Picture of dust jacket where original $1.40 price is found for The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the copyright page for The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the 1918 first edition dust jacket for The Magnificent Ambersons. The Magnificent Ambersons won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On later issue jackets, that price was blotted out by the publisher, and $1.50 was written below it. The price on the first issue jacket was $1.40. Dust jacket is extremely rare and adds most of the value to the book. Title page and copyright page should both say 1918 with no other statement of printings. Pages: 516 Rust red boards stamped in black. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.First Edition Points and Criteria for The Magnificent Ambersons In 1942 Orson Welles wrote and directed an acclaimed film adaptation. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." In 1925 the novel was first adapted for film under the title Pampered Youth. " a typical story of an American family and town-the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. It is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged Van Wyck Brooks. Eclipsed by a new breed of developers, financiers, and manufacturers, this pampered scion begins his gradual descent from the midwestern aristocracy to the working class. The protagonist of Booth Tarkington's great historical drama is George Amberson Minafer, the spoiled and arrogant grandson of the founder of the family's magnificence. The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. The first issue dust jacket is virtually unobtainable. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is the second state variant dust jacket, with light restoration. Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.įirst edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, basis for the classic Orson Wells film often regarded as among the greatest films of all time.
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