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                                  UNITED STATES
                       SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
                              WASHINGTON, DC 20549


                                   FORM 10-Q/A


                QUARTERLY REPORT PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)
                     OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934


For Quarterly Period Ended March 31, 1997 Commission file number 17088
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                        AMERICAN BUSINESS PRODUCTS, INC.
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             (Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)


         Georgia                                               58-1030529
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(State of Incorporation)                                      (IRS Employer
                                                              Identification No.


2100 RiverEdge Parkway, Suite 1200, Atlanta, Georgia                      30328
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  (Address of principal executive offices)                            (Zip Code)


Registrant's telephone number, including area code     (770) 953-8300
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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant (1) has filed all reports required
to be filed by Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 during
the preceding 12 months (or for such shorter period that the registrant was
required to file such reports), and (2) has been subject to such filing
requirements for the past 90 days.


Yes  X    No
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    Common Stock, $2.00 par value                     16,408,617 shares
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              (Class)                          (Outstanding at March 31, 1997)


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(3)(4)   Item 2.  Management's Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition
                  and Results of Operations


         3.   Pro Forma Financial Information

         The accompanying unaudited pro forma condensed consolidated financial
         statements give effect to the Vanier Sale as if the transaction
         occurred on December 31, 1995. The pro forma condensed consolidated
         financial statements of the Company are presented for informational
         purposes only and their inclusion in this report is not intended to
         intimate that the pro forma information is a more meaningful indicator
         of the results of operations than the Company's reported financial
         results. Further, the pro forma information may not reflect the
         Company's future results of operations or what the results of
         operations of the Company would have been had the Vanier Sale occurred
         at the date indicated.

          UNAUDITED PRO FORMA CONDENSED CONSOLIDATED INCOME STATEMENTS
               FOR THE THREE MONTHS ENDED MARCH 31, 1997 AND 1996
                  (Dollars in thousands, except per share data)

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                                                     1997             1996
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<S>                                               <C>              <C>      
NET SALES                                         $ 127,048        $ 123,370
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COST AND EXPENSES
  Cost of goods sold                                 89,807           87,286
  Selling and administrative
    expenses                                         28,403           26,837
  Restructuring expenses                                 --            3,013
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                                                    118,210          117,136
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OPERATING INCOME                                      8,838            6,234

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSES)
  Interest expense                                   (1,725)          (1,817)
  Miscellaneous-net                                   4,706              744 (1)
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INCOME BEFORE INCOME TAXES                           11,819            5,161

PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES                            4,444            1,910
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NET INCOME                                        $   7,375        $   3,251
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EARNINGS PER COMMON SHARE                         $    0.45        $    0.20
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      (1)         Does not include interest income of approximately $526 which
                  the Company would have received had the net proceeds of the
                  Vanier Sale been invested in money market instruments
                  throughout the first quarter of 1996.


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         Results for the first quarter of 1997 include after tax gains of $1.4
         million, or $0.09 per share, on the disposal of realty rendered
         redundant to operating needs by the Company's plant consolidation
         program which commenced in the first quarter of 1996 and concluded with
         the final planned plant closing in the first quarter of 1997. Without
         the realty gains, the Company would have shown net income of $6.0
         million, or $0.36 per share, for the quarter.

         Actual results for the first quarter of 1996 included a restructuring
         charge of $2.2 million after tax, or $0.13 per share, related to the
         plant consolidation program. Also, from the Company's former business
         forms manufacturing business which the Company sold on December 31,
         1996, were revenues of $33.6 million and after tax earnings (expressed
         net of that part of the restructuring charge that related to Vanier and
         interest income that would have been earned had the sale proceeds
         instead been invested in money market instruments throughout the
         quarter) of $0.6 million, or $0.04 per share, for the first quarter of
         1996. Without the restructuring charge and the business forms
         manufacturing business' revenues and earnings contribution, the first
         quarter of 1996 would have shown revenues of $123.4 million and net
         income of $5.5 million or $0.33 per share.






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                                   SIGNATURES


Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the
registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the
undersigned thereunto duly authorized.


                                             AMERICAN BUSINESS PRODUCTS, INC.
                                                       (Registrant)



Date: July 23, 1997                          \S\ Richard G. Smith
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                                             Richard G. Smith
                                             Vice President-Finance
                                             and Chief Financial Officer
                                             [duly authorized officer
                                             and principal financial officer]





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