Show Boat by Edna Ferber, 1926, First Edition (36 results)

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, unknown printing. Hard cover 8vo in yellow cloth w/black titles. Very Good/No DJ. Spine lightly soiled, rear hinge lose, else Fine and unmarked. Filmed twice, 1936 and 1951. 398pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. The gilded age of the 1870's through the 90's up to the present time. On a show boat on the Mississippi River. Book has a little binding problem.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First Edition, First Printing. Published by Buccaneer Books, 1926. Octavo. Book is very good. No Dust jacket. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.

Paperback. First Edition Thus [1962], so stated. First Edition Thus [1962], so stated. Very Good in Wraps: shows indications of careful use: light wear to the extremities; mild rubbing and barely discernible soiling to the wrapper covers; careful tape repair to the top of the front hinge and head of the backstrip, to repair a tiny, closed tear; the binding, though very slightly concave, remains square and secure; the text is clean. No longer 'As New', but remains clean, sturdy, and quite presentable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. 12mo. 290pp. GC-123. First published in 1926 in hardcover. Mass Market Paperback.

Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Facsimile Edition. Facsimile of the first 1926 edition; no date; 398pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition, Later Printing. No edition stated. Yellow boards. 398 pages. Edge wear at top and bottom of spine and the fly leaf page is out of line.

Hardcover. This is a vintage hardcover first edition of Edna Ferber's novel "Show Boat," published in 1926 by Grosset & Dunlap. The book is an original printing and written in English. It is a classic piece of literature and falls under the "Antiquarian & Collectible" category. The book is not signed or personalized and was published in the United States.; 10.00 x 8.00 x 4.00.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. First Edition. Boards are worn and marked.Repaired.Minor stain marks.Previous ownership inscription.Excellent binding.[R.K]. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. blue cloth, white lettering, no dust jacket, 398 pp, first UK edition, light foxing to edges and first and last pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. True first edition in fair condition. Only pieces of the dust jacket remain, but all are included. Interior pages are in good shape. The Friends of the Bridgeport Public Library use these funds to promote literacy in the community and in the Bridgeport public schools.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. 398 pages very clean. Spine shows wear and tear. Cover has some staining. Orange cover with black lettering. Basis for a movie of the same name. ASIN: B000P22ST4.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York, USA, 1926. First (1st) Printing of the First Trade Edition, after a limited edition, with title in red on title page and facing page, copyright information, also in red, at foot of title page with date of 1926 and no other dates or printings. Good+ condition. No Dust Jacket. The Text Block is white, reasonably tight, straight and square with gray topstain, and no markings other than small stains to pages 208 and 209 and to the top of the fore-edges at to the end of the bottom edges. The Binding is full canary yellow cloth, with title and author in black on the front board, title, etc., in black to the spine, unmarked pictorial endpapers, bumped corners and wear at head and heel of the spine and at the folds of the spine. No Jacket. See the photos. 398 pages. 5 1/4" x 7 1/2". A historical novel, the story relates the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a riverboat theater on the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s, setting scenes on the Reconstruction Era riverboat, Gilded Age Chicago and 1920s New York, finally returning to the Mississippi River.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Yellow boards with black titling. In very good shape with minor wrinkling. Binding is tight. Book is unmarked, no Jacket. A first edition, printing unknown. Famous book.

Yellow Cloth. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First Edition. Bookplate inside front cover, light soiling to cover hinges, a bit of yellowing to cover edges. Jacket shows light wear and chipping to edges, partially price clipped; not B/C edition. Sound and unmarked.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Publisher's canary yellow cloth with black titles, illustrated endpapers, and red letter title on title page with single date at bottom. Ferber's best-known novel, later made into a Broadway musical and Hollywood film. A very well preserved copy, clean and unmarked. A fine facsimile dust jacket will be provided for a very nominal extra charge.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Dust Jacket Condition: poor. First Edition. 398p octavo. A good copy in a very poor dust jacket, chipped and worn.

7.5 x 5, cloth, 398 pp, spotting to title and edges, minor front hinge cracked, in tattered dw with has deep spine chipping, darkening and some scribbles on front cover. FIRST ED, poor man's copy.

Condition: Very Good. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1926. 1st trade edition. 398pp. Illustrated endpapers. Very Good book. Poor dust jacket. Dust jacket is has large, open tear and is lacking a large section from the spine and parts of the front and rear panels. Owner's name and "1st edition" written in ink on front endpapers. In protective mylar cover. (Showboats Mississippi River, Women Entertainers, Romance Fiction) Inquire if you need further information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. No markings. Dust jacket has some soiling and rubbing, small tears to edges, $2.00 on the front flap, attractive in a protective cover. First Trade Edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. VG/G with very bright dj that has dampstaining at bottom edge of covers, 1st reprint edition.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 398 p. Ill. endpapers. Subjects: Showboats ; Fiction. Women entertainers. Interracial marriage. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Signed First Edition of this popular tale of colorful happenings on a early 20th century Mississippi River show boat. Source book for the landmark Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein musical of the same title. This copy is one of a signed and numbered First Edition limited to 201 copies. Signed by Edna Ferber on the limitation page and numbered 35 of 201. 398 pages. No slipcase. Has tanning on the spine and a 1" thin surface crack at the fore edge of the spine at bottom. Has edge wear including a bump on the top fore edge corner of the back cover. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition in binding with 'Book of the Month Club Selection' stamped at spine. Basis for the Universal Picture starring Laura La Plante and Joseph Schildkraut. Wrap-around dustjacket art. Very Good in Very Good dustjacket, chipping at spine ends and flap corners.

First Edition. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: 398 p. Ill. endpapers. Subjects: Showboats ; Fiction. Women entertainers. Interracial marriage. 1 Kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ dj. First Trade Edition. [slight bump to top right corner of front cover, light foxing to bottom edge of text block, spine very slightly turned; unclipped jacket ($2.00 printed price) is lightly soiled, sun-browning to spine and along edge of rear flap, a bit of chipping at top of spine (slightly affecting the printed title thereon)]. An American classic. The novel was a best-seller, and the subject matter made its adaptation into a stage musical a natural; the Kern-Hammerstein musical opened on Broadway in December 1927 and ran for a year and a half; the first, mostly-silent version went into release in 1929, followed by full musical (talkie) adaptations in 1936 and 1951.

Yellow Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Trade Edition. First Treader Edition. Cocked at head of spine. Light, brown stain on front board. Light wear along front edge of spine. Foxing and light brown stains on fore-edge page block. Slight wear along top edges of boards. Previous owner's inscription on first free end page. Jacket is sunned along spine. Two chips at tail of spine. Chip at head of spine, most of the word "show" is missing. Several, tiny chips on top edges of front and back panels. Light crease along spine. Mild wear along vertical edges. Small, closed tear on front panel, near fore-edge. Several brown spots present on front and back panels. Top edges of flaps are slightly darkened. Otherwise both book and jacket are in very good condition and in a mylar wrapper.

Hardcover. First Edition, First Printing. Octavo, 398 pages. In Very Good minus condition with Good dust jacket. Yellow spine with black text. Dust jacket is protected by mylar covering and has chipping to corners and spine edges, light tearing to edges of both covers, light sunning to spine, and mild shelf wear. Textblock has splitting to half title page gutter. Shelved in Case 0. 1374558. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First trade edition. Near fine yellow cloth boards with touch of darkening to the gutters and tiny spot on the text block in about very good illustrated dustwrapper with chipping at the edges, smudge on the front panel and sunning at the spine. A scarce novel, the play adapted from this novel won the Pulitzer Prize and continues to be produced. It was first filmed by Universal studios in 1929, shot as a silent picture, but released with a sound prologue featuring the Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein III score. The mismatch failed miserably but the studio believed in the material and remade it brilliantly in 1936, taking a chance with director James Whale (then as now best known for his success with intelligent horror films) and a fine cast including Irene Dunne, Allan Jones and Paul Robeson. It was well-remade again in 1951 by George Sidney with a significantly different script and featuring Kathryn Grayson, Ava Gardner, Howard Keel and Joe E. Brown.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition; First Printing. One of 1000 copies specially prepared by the publisher in deep blue, orange & yellow checker patterned boards, with deep blue quarter cloth & gilt titles, without dust jacket as issued. Near fine, with traces of rubbing to bottom tips & adjacent edges of boards. Lovely example of an issue which seldom turns-up in superb condition. The classic Broadway musical which set the tone for all that followed. (O).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition, First Printing. 5 1/8 X 7 5/8 Inches. 398 PP. First trade edition of Ferber's epic bestseller, beautifully housed in a custom clamshell box. Original cloth a bit toned at edges, else a fine copy. DJ unrestored with a few light chips to edges. Tear to front flap, but remnant of original $2.00 price present. Basis for the 1927 Ziegfield musical by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein. Basis for the Paul Robeson and later Ava Gardner films as well. Bookseller label rear endpaper recto.