Cinematography by Stanley Cortez editing by Robert Wise. The film wasn’t completed in the form that Welles originally intended, and there are pictorial effects that seem scaled for a much fuller work, but even in this truncated form it’s amazing and memorable.

(It’s a classic performance.) With the amazing old Richard Bennett as the family patriarch, Joseph Cotten, Anne Baxter, and Ray Collins. A dynasty spanning three generations, the Ambersons pre-eminence as societys elite is threatened-not only by a hungry new breed of industrial entrepreneurs-but from its own arrogance and greed. Tim Holt plays the arrogant, mother-fixated son who falls from the American aristocracy to the working class Dolores Costello, the fragile blond beauty of the silent era, is his soft, yielding mother and, as the nervous, bitter hysterical-spinster aunt, Agnes Moorehead is uncannily powerful, in a hyperrealistic way. Booth Tarkingtons The Magnificent Ambersons is the epic story of an American familys traumatic tumble from the dizzying heights of fame and fortune. Working from the Booth Tarkington novel, Welles achieved some great sequences of family life-intense, harrowing squabbles. Other first edition points for books by Booth Tarkington include: Alice Adams.Orson Welles’s second film, from 1942, has greater depth than “Citizen Kane,” though it doesn’t have the driving force that might have held it together. Picture of the front dust jacket flap for the first edition of The Magnificent Ambersons. Photo courtesy of James Cahill/Rare Books, Inc. His grandfather had been the most striking figure of.

One one level, the story focuses on Georgie Amberson Minifer, only grandchild of the great Major Amberson. Picture of the title page for The Magnificent Ambersons. Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer prize for The Magnificent Ambersons, set in Indiana in the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries. 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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