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Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, 1918.
Price: US$7.26 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Publisher is William Briggs. XLib. No DJ. Has brown covers with black lettering on front cover and spine. Library sticker on inside of front cover. Residue from old due date card holder inside back cover. Book shows common (average) signs of wear and use. Binding is still tight. Covers are intact but may be repaired. We have 75,000 books to choose from -- Ship within 24 hours -- Satisfaction Guaranteed!
Seller: Bank of Books, Ventura, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Grosset & Dunlap, New York, 1918.
Price: US$37.21 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover without jacket. Grosset & Dunlap edition, copyright stated with Doubleday, 1918 - unclear whether this edition was published in 1918 or later. 516pp, with red boards ('Pulitzer Prize Novel' and decoration embossed on front; titles in black with waves and leaf motifs on spine. Deckle-edged. Spine is slightly sunned; boards are a little worn and marked, with two or three larger marks on rear. Remains of small label on FEP. Pages are clean, and all text is clear. TS
Seller: PsychoBabel & Skoob Books, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OXON, United Kingdom
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday Page, NY, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Hard cover. Published NY: Doubleday Page, 1918, first printing. Small 8vo., 516 pp., illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Ex-library in library, brown buckram binding with gilt titles. Heavy binder's endpapers added, with library tags. Blind emboss on two pages, no other library stamps or markings in original text block. Twenty or so pages with short closed tears, some running into the text, few pages with small chips off the corner or soiling, else good. Size: 8vo.
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.
Price: US$74.50 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Short snag on the cloth of the spine. Corners bumped. Some wear to the cloth of the top edge. Rear pastedown has been nicely repaired. Very sound, very clean. No fading. ; 1st edition in rust cloth with black titling. Nice, bright and clean pages. The width of pages measures close to 1 1/8 inches. ; Small 8vo; 516 pages
Seller: The Story Shop, Elwood, IN, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York, 1918.
Price: US$74.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover, some wear and fraying to the spine area and signs of age inside. Award winning first edition for your collection. Email us for a photo. We ship fast.
Seller: Mountain Books, Kent, CT, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1918.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very good copy in dark orange cloth with black titles. Light dust-staining to top edge of page block.
Seller: Jackson Street Booksellers, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: FIRST EDITION. Both title page and copyright pages say 1918 with no other statements of printing. No dust jacket. Book does have shelf wear. Foxing has occurred. Pages are tanning.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page, Garden City, NY, 1918.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Original red cloth. First Edition. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and basis for the 1942 Orson Welles film by the same name starring Joseph Cotton, Anne Baxter, and Agnes Moorehead. Previous owner’s name dated in the year of publication, lacking the Dust Jacket, Very Good.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. Doubleday, Page and Co., New York, 1918.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 x 8 in. 516 pp. Brick red cloth boards with black titles. First edition with 1918 on the title and copyright pgs. B&W frontis and plates by Arthur William Brown. Condition is VERY GOOD ; corners and spine ends lightly bumped with minor wear, very small water stain to lower front corner with some faint water stains to that area of the text edges. Covers very clean, spine darkened but with titles quite readable. Binding tight. Text bright and and unmarked. Upper text edge a bit dusty. A very nice first edition of this Pulitzer winner and basis for the iconic Orson Welles film. Fic. RGR.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 516 pages, 12mo. No DJ. First Edition, First State: printed on white paper. State "a" of binding: rust orange, measuring 1-1/8th" across sheets. Complete with 8 b&w plates illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Shelfwear: scuffing along edges and cover boards, some light smudges on cover boards, previous owner's inscription on bookplate adhered to front endpaper, front and rear spine hinges are lightly cracked, light tanning along page edges. Clean and crisp pages. Volume is in Very Good condition.
Seller: Russian Hill Bookstore, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918.
Price: US$153.70 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. First Edition. No dust jacket. Cover has mild shelfwear, softened spine ends, slightly tilted spine. Pages are clean and unmarked, mild foxing throughout. Front hinge slightly cracked, back hinge is perfect. Very nice copy.
Seller: PJK Books and Such, Murrells Inlet, SC, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Co, Garden City, 1918.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing. Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. Octavo, original terra cotta cloth boards, titles to spine and front cover black.Tarkington's novel won the Pulitzer Prize, and later formed the basis for Orson Welles's ill-fated second film, released in 1942 after heavy editing by the RKO studio. A good copy with ink inscription to front free endpaper partially rubbed out with abrasion, front hinge weak, large stain to rear cover, wear to ends of spine and corners, staining and soiling to front board.
Seller: Caroliniana, Aiken, SC, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday Page & Co., NY, 1918.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover, FIRST EDITION. nice burnt orange boards, with black lettering - very clean . Previous owners bookplate to indise front cover. Inner hinge is split just behind half title page . A nice and presentable copy of an early Pulitzer Prize winner.
Seller: The Kings Word, Marietta, GA, U.S.A.
TARKINGTON, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Company, Garden City, NY, 1918.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Octavo, original brown cloth over boards, black lettering, black and white plate frontispiece, seven additional black and white plates, book block measures approximately 1_'. Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the declining fortunes of a wealthy Midwestern family; adapted into the 1942 feature film of the same name by Orson Welles. Near Fine, spine ends slightly bumped, light spotting to fore edge of front cover, no dust jacket.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, page and company, 1918.
Price: US$235.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition in very good condition. Small blemish on the rear cover.
Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1918.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: One of Tarkington's two Pulitzer-Prize winning novels and the subject of the Orson Welles film and the Showtime miniseries. Burnt orange cloth, binding tight and square, none of the hinge and binding issues common with 100-year-old Tarkington novels from this era. Bumps to both front corners and a bump in the center of top edge of front board. Wear to head and heel of spine. Darkening to top edge of text block, foxing to first few pages, very light shelfwear at bottom of boards. Faded fountain pen ink signature of former owner on front free endpaper, looks like from the era of publication. A better copy of this title than is normally found over a century after publication. Provided with a fine facsimile dust jacket.
Seller: Green River Books, Gainesville, FL, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, Page & Co, Garden City, NY, 1918.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Original brown-red cloth, titles to front board and spine in black. Binding loose, spine frayed along front edge (5" from bottom). Boards show normal age wear otherwise. Pages bright and unmarked with rare but occasional light foxing. Missing dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize Winner, made into brilliant movie by Orson Welles.
Seller: Sam Barcelo, Cambridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 13 Autograph edition, Limited to 565 copies. Signed by the author, on vol. 1, the Gentleman from Indiana. Cloth spines, over gray boards. Printed spine labels. Clean, unmarked pages. Contents: I. The gentleman from Indiana. --II. The two Vanrevels. --III. The guest of Quesnay. --IV. The flirt. --V. Penrod. --VI. Penrod and Sam. --VII. In the arena. --VIII. Harlequin and Columbine, and other stories. --IX. Monsieur Beaucaire. The beautiful lady. His own people, and other stories. --X. The turmoil. --XI. The conquest of Canaan. --XII. Seventeen. --XX. The Plutocrat. Originally projected as a 12 volume set, in subsequent years additional volumes were printed. Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, for Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons. This is an oversized or heavy book, which requires additional postage for international delivery outside the US.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$750.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Number 187/565 copies, Numbered in each volume and SIGNED by Tarkington in volume one. The half title leaf in volume one announces "The Works of Booth Tarkington in Twelve Volumes" but this statement was changed after the 12th volume (to "The Works of Booth Tarkington"), as subsequent volumes were added to the set beginning with The Magnificent Ambersons [Volume XIII] in 1919. This set includes, in addition to the originally projected 12 volumes, an additional 4 volumes--the aforementioned Magnificent Ambersons, followed by Ramsey Milholland [Volume XIV], Alice Adams [Volume XV] and Gentle Julia [Volume XVI]. This set is uniformly bound in off-white vertically ribbed cloth over very pale lavender colored paper covered boards, uniform spine labels, without jackets, all top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges untrimmed. A Near Fine set, with a few minor abrasions to the paper boards. Text and endpapers clean and unmarked throughout, free of foxing or damp. Elegant private library bookplates in each volume to front pastedown. Tarkington won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice, for Alice Adams and The Magnificent Ambersons, and a number of his works were adapted to the theatre and cinema. After publication of this first collected works was begun in 1918, he would go on to publish dozens more books in a career that eventually spanned nearly 50 years. Further details upon request. Q10406
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$825.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 14 Volumes complete. (6" x 8.5"): 8vo's. Garden City, New York: 1918-1919. Finely bound in 3/4 crushed green levant morocco. raised bands, gilt titles and decorations, t.e.g. Illustrated with drawings by the author and others; tissue protected frontispiece plates in two states, one in color. Limited one of 565 copies, SIGNED by Tarkington on limitation page of volume one. I. The Gentleman from Indiana. II. The Two Vanrevels. III. The Guest of Quesnay. IV. The Flirt. V. Penrod. VI. Penrod and Sam. VII. In the Arena. VIII. Harlequin and Columbine, and other stories. IX. Monsieur Beaucaire. The Beautiful Lady. His own people, and other stories. nX. The Turmoil. XI. The Conqust of Canaan. XII. Seventeen. XIII. The Magnificent Ambersons. XIV. Ramsey Milholland. Spines lightly toned, some minor rubbing, else a handsomely bound leather set of an American author whose name was once a household word. Size: Octavo
Seller: Books & Bidders Antiquarian Booksellers, Cleveland, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First 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. Octavo, bound in full morocco by the Harcourt Bindery with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panel, gilt inner dentelles stamp-signed by the Harcourt Bindery, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on a page bound in, " For Rose and John Narteau from Florence and John Jameson and inscribed, with pleasure by Booth Tarkington Indianapolis February 26, 1945." In fine condition. An exceptional presentation. The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. 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. 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. It is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] 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. 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. In 1942 Orson Welles wrote and directed an acclaimed film adaptation. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Tarkington, Booth. Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday, 1918.
Price: US$2750.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing SIGNED by Booth Tarkington on a laid in signature. The book is in nice shape. The binding is tight, and the boards are crisp with light wear to the edges. The pages are exceptionally clean with no marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a lovely copy of this true first edition, with a facsimile dustjacket from the orginal. We buy Tarkington First Editions in dustjacket.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Booth Tarkington. The Magnificent Ambersons. Doubleday Page & Co. Garden City & New Yorl, 1918.
Price: US$10266.12 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Octavo. Original brown-red cloth, titles to front board and spine in black. With the pictorial dust jacket. No writing, no marks . A nice copy in the very good jacket with a couple of closed tears at folds, some minute chipping along the edges and a small cut just touching the letter E of MAGNIFICENT on front panel and another tiny in the back panel . Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. First edition, first printing, with the dust jacket in second state, repriced $1.50 on the spine with the first price of $1.40 crossed out but still visible. Tarkington's novel won the Pulitzer Prize, and later formed the basis for Orson Welles's ill-fated second film, released in 1942 after heavy editing by the RKO. Hard to find title in its original dust-jacket
Seller: AlmostAll1stEditions, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$11000.00 + shipping
Description: First 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. Octavo, original cloth. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is the second state variant dust jacket, with light restoration. The first issue dust jacket is virtually unobtainable. Rare in this condition. The Magnificent Ambersons chronicles the changing fortunes of three generations of an American dynasty. 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. 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. It is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," judged Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] 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. 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. In 1942 Orson Welles wrote and directed an acclaimed film adaptation. Listed by Modern Library as one of the 100 greatest novels of the twentieth century.
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.