To most parents of any age, there were half a dozen prototypes of The Gentleman from Indiana. Was easily recognizable to any citizen who was a boy in Penrod's day, and George Barr McCutcheon nor the grimy realism of TheodoreĮvery town in American had its Magnificent Ambersons, and a dotingĭaughter kept up a pretense of gentility in most American towns and cities. Wishfully-good and pure bad was about right. Some of the Magnificent Ambersons, but the proportion of good, near-good, They were by no means all nice people there was always the leavening ofĪlice Adams' bootlegging brother, the nastiness of Mostly, though, he knew the Indiana middle class and he put them down, in his notablyĬareful and beautiful script, for future generations and for the world at large to

Which fed the ebony glitter of the colored folks' main-stem, Indiana Progressively less impressive, and he knew what went on in the residential streets He did well, too, on the streets neighboring to Meridian and Thoroughfare, or, as in the case of the family of Alice Adams, He was at his best on North Meridian Street (his 'NationalĪvenue') in Indianapolis, or with the people who had prospered to a chill eminence above that Tarkington's interest lay in the people whom he and most other Americans knew well. Other first edition points for books by Booth Tarkington include: Alice Adams.Of all writers Booth Tarkington most nearly interpreted theĪmerican scene from the beginning of this century through the Twenties as the Picture of the front dust jacket flap for the first edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Photo courtesy of James Cahill/Rare Books, Inc. Picture of the title page for The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the back dust jacket flap for the first edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the first edition Doubleday Page boards for The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the back dust jacket for the first edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of dust jacket where original $1.40 price is found for The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the copyright page for The Magnificent Ambersons. Picture of the 1918 first edition dust jacket for The Magnificent Ambersons. The Magnificent Ambersons won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. On later issue jackets, that price was blotted out by the publisher, and $1.50 was written below it. The price on the first issue jacket was $1.40. Dust jacket is extremely rare and adds most of the value to the book. Title page and copyright page should both say 1918 with no other statement of printings. Pages: 516 Rust red boards stamped in black. First Edition Points and Criteria for The Magnificent Ambersons

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