A Peculiar Treasure by Edna Ferber - 1939

dd 1960 Ex-Lib CONDITION: worn.

NEW YORK: DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & CO.. VG.. 1939.

NY: Doubleday, Doran & Co, Inc. VG+ in Fair DJ. 1939. 1st ed ss. 1st ed after the ptg of a limited de luxe edition of 351 copies. DJ chipped, tears. .

Lancer Books. New York: Lancer Books, Inc. , 1962 first edition . 73-401 near fine paperback,

NY: The Literary Guild Of America, 1939 Cloth. Good+/No Jacket. First Edition. Major Publisher. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Spine is worn near the top but still pretty solid. Has some age toning but the interior of the book is in great shape with photo illustrations. Has a name and date inked inside the front cover. A very good reading copy..

Book. Hardcover. 1995 BRIGHT CLEAN FINE CONDITION 248 PAGE HARDCOVER AND FINE JACKET!! BETTER THAN A PAPERBACK!!.

Engaging autobiography of author of novels -- many of which became popular motion pictures -- such as Cimarron, Show Boat, and more. Residue of bookplate removed from inside cover; discoloration along hinges; price in colored pencil; owner's name lightly penciled; dj tattered along top and spine. No marks in text.

Literary Guild, 1939. hardcover. good: wear/soiling to top of boards, name on front paste down, name and marking on rear paste down, toning and offset on paste downs and endpapers, text clean, binding tight./fair: significant tearing and chipping with some loss.. 8vo 398pp. from front flap: "In this autobiography the author of Show Boat, So BIg, Cimarron and other great American novels tells her greatest and most dramatic story. "The soul-baring school of autobiography," writes Edna Ferber, "is more embarrassing for the reader than the writer. . . . This, then, isn't a story of my life, written because I am fatuous enough to think that anyone is interested. . . . .It is the story of an American Jewish family in the past half-century, and as such is really a story about America which I know and love." #00952.

Doubleday, Doran & Co Ltd, New York, 1939. Reprint. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Good/No Dust Jacket. Illustrator: Photographic. With black-and-white frontispiece, and 15 other pages of black-and-white photography. Original dark blue boards with a monogram of the author on the front board, untrimmed front edge of text block, top edge tinted blue (somewhat faded), with a slight bumping of the corners, previous owner's bookplate on front end page. There is a horizontal tear to the top back strip edge – please see photograph. The author who wrote among other books "Showboat" offers her biography from the age of 12 through to the year 1939." It has been my privilege, then, to have been a human being on the planet Earth; and to have been an American, a Jew. A lovely life I have found it, and thank you, Sir. So come Revolution! Come Hitler! Come Death! Even though you win -- you lose." Page 398. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" -… Read More

The Literary Guild of America, 1939-01-01. Hardcover. Good. book has edge wear on spine & edges. pages has rough front edge and Pages are tan and not crisp white. stain on the inside cover pages from age.