Item #456447īooth Tarkington as collectible author is an enigma, wrapped in a contradiction, and drizzled with irony. This is by a great measure the nicest copy that we are aware of. This was the second novel to win the Pulitzer Prize and is rarely seen in jacket. Two decades later Orson Welles wrote, produced, and directed his own film adaptation, an inventive, magnificent successor to his first film, *Citizen Kane*, which was nominated for Best Picture in 1942. A copy of the book in this particular variant jacket sold at auction at Swann Galleries for $16,800. Further evidence of this would seem to be reinforced by copies that we've seen with the $1.40 price canceled by the publisher and re-priced at $1.50. The late Pulitzer Prize collector Don Scriven, maintained that he had read that the publisher was undecided about the price of the book. Reviews of the book in contemporary periodicals appear both with and without the $1.40 price. This copy without a price on the spine, and another issued with $1.40 price on the spine. There were two variants of the jacket, with no established priority. Fine in a fine example of the rare dustwrapper with just a touch of soiling on the spine. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1918. Library of Congress 88 Books That Shaped America.Johnson Highspot of American Literature.
Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Achievement.What makes a book an "Antiquarian Book"?.Major Amberson bought two hundred acres of land at the end of National Avenue and through this tract he built broad streets and cross-streets paved them with cedar block, and curbed them with stone. No matter how prosperous they were, they could not spend money either upon "art," or upon mere luxury and entertainment, without a sense of sin.Īgainst so homespun a background the magnificence of the Ambersons was as conspicuous as a brass band at a funeral. In the minds of most of these, indeed, their thrift was next to their religion: to save, even for the sake of saving, was their earliest lesson and discipline. Ay food for the winter, or goods to trade for food, and they often feared they had not stored enough-they left traces of that fear in their sons and grandsons.
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