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Estimate: $ 3,000 - $ 4,000
TARKINGTON, BOOTH. The Magnificent Ambersons. Illustrated by Arthur William Brown. 8vo, original maroon cloth; pictorial dust jacket, a few tears and creasing, some chipping with minor losses chiefly to upper spine panel, small hole on front panel, finger-soiling. Garden City, 1918
inscribed first edition in the exceedingly scarce dust jacket. "Inscribed with / pleasure for Mr. / Robert Prager, / Booth Tarkington." The basis for the 1942 Orson Welles film that the studio notoriously recut against Welles's wishes. ABPC records only one copy with the dust jacket sold at auction in the past thirty years.
