Show Boat (Signed)
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926. Limited Edition, copy #18 of 201. Hardcover in slipcase. Octavo. [iv], 398 pages.
A sweeping tale of three generations performers aboard the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River showboat. The novel explores themes of love, struggle, and social issues like racism, reflecting the vibrant and tumultuous American experience through the lives of its performers in the 1880s to 1920s.
Ferber's novel has a connection to the Chesapeake Bay in that she drew inspiration from experiences and atmosphere aboard the Bay's James Adams Floating Theatre which she visited in 1925.
This work was immortalized by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in their famous Broadway show of the same name in 1927.
A spectacular copy, one of only 201 copies in this signed limited edition of this American classic.
Fine in a near fine slipcase. Bound in dark green paper over boards with white spine, gilt titles and ornaments to spine, gilt ornaments to four corners of upper board, top edge gilt. Slipcase has a few mild rubs at extremities and a small chip to binding paper at bottom left of opening.
Item #1729
Price: $750