Show Boat
Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, (1926).
Price: $2,000.00
Hardcover. First edition. Small octavo. 398pp. Publisher's quarter dark blue cloth and checkered orange, yellow and navy paste-paper boards. Spine cocked with lettering faded, crease on front cover and wear at the edges of the boards, good or better, lacking the unprinted tissue jacket. One of 1000 copies especially bound for presentation only. Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper: "Dear Fay, I haven't one of these myself - and that's what I think of you. Edna Ferber, September, 1926." Basis for the musical of the same name.
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