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The Magnificent Ambersons
by Booth Tarkington
- Used
- poor
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Poor/No Jacket
- Seller
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Waynesboro, Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Doubleday, Page & Company, 1922. Full-Leather. Poor/No Jacket. Red leather with gilt to spine and front cover. Book Is heavily worn with spine cloth mostly missing and torn, heavy wear to leather with boards exposed at corners. Binding loose with endpapers separated. Book in poor condition but all pages present
Synopsis
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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- Bookseller
- Stone Soup Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 56369
- Title
- The Magnificent Ambersons
- Author
- Booth Tarkington
- Format/Binding
- Full-Leather
- Book Condition
- Used - Poor
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday, Page & Company
- Date Published
- 1922
- Bookseller catalogs
- Vintage Fiction;
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- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
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