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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.