TARKINGTON | The Magnificent Ambersons, 1918

TARKINGTON, BOOTH

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS. GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY, 1918

8vo, FIRST EDITION OF THE AUTHOR'S PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING NOVEL, frontispiece and 7 plates by Arthur William Brown, original brown-red cloth lettered in black, PICTORIAL DUST-JACKET (second state with cancelled price "Net, $1.40" and new price "Net, $1.50" on spine), contemporary ownership signature to front free endpaper, bookseller's label to lower fixed endpaper, soiled and worn dust-jacket wih loss and tears to extremities, minor loss to dust-jacket spine

The novel won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize for fiction and, in 1941-42, formed the basis for Orson Welles' second film for RKO.

PROVENANCE:

Sadie H. Miles, Christmas 1918 (ownership inscription)

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