NMLP P-003226 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-04

The Magnificent Ambersons

Booth Tarkington · Doubleday, Page & Company (Garden City, NY) · 1918

The documented first-issue text point is the transposed reading at page 419, line 14, 'I can't see you why don't,' corrected in later issues to 'I can't see why you don't.' The first-state dust jacket carries the lower original price on the spine; later jackets obscure that price and overprint a higher one

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-003226 for "The Magnificent Ambersons" by Booth Tarkington (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-003226, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).