FERBER, EDNA. CIMARRON. , 1930.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Description: FERBER, Edna. CIMARRON. Garden City: Doubleday, Doran, 1930. 8vo., printed wraps. Advance Reading Copy, issued for advance comments by reviewers. Printed quote from William Allen White on front cover: "I read it in the manuscript and I think it is Edna Ferber's best piece of work." Signed by Ferber on the half-title page. Basis for the 1930 movie of the same name, which won two Academy Awards- one for Best Picture and one for Best Screenplay by Howard Estabrook. "An elegant example of superb film-making."- Variety. The film was also nominated for five additional Academy Awards. Also remade by MGM in 1960, with an Academy Award nomination for art direction. Scarce! Very Good (moderate browning; few creases wraps; bit of soil lower edge). $250.00.

Seller: Antic Hay Books, Asbury Park, NJ, U.S.A.

Ferber, Edna. CIMARRON [With signature]. Doubleday, Doran and Co., Inc, Garden City, New York, 1930.

Price: US$720.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo, 388 pages. In Very Good condition with Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine tan, pictorial, with black label and tan lettering. Dust jacket shows rips to all four corners and damage to edges, head, and tail of spine, protected with a mylar covering, price unclipped: "$2.50". Boards show light shelf wear overall with bumping to corners and head and tail of spine. Text block is clean interiorly with pictorial endpapers, autograph "tipped in" onto the front end page, and cracking to binding on title page. Fore edges are deckled. Shelved in Room B. 1263106. Special Collections.

Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.

Ferber, Edna. CIMARRON IN RARE DUST-WRAPPER. Doubleday, Doran, 1930.

Price: US$834.25 + shipping

Description: CIMARRON, Doubleday, Doran, 1930, first edition, vg+ in two different dust-wrappers, neither of which were used with the first edition of the book! One is most definitely an alternate which was apparently rejected. It has no text on the dust-wrapper flaps, printed on a bright yellow background depicting a full color illustration of a finely dressed western man and his bonneted lady on the front panel with a another full color illustration depicting a revolver, holster and gunbelt on the rear panel. There are some editorial markings on the front dust-wrapper flaps and the head of the front panel. The other dust-wrapper has the text of the rear flap of the the dust-wrapper released with the first edition on the front dust-wrapper flap, and totally different designed front dust-wrapper panel, spine and rear dust-wrapper panel. The rear panel gives a synopsis of the 1931 published title AMERICAN BEAUTY while the rear flap lists other novels by Edna Ferber including AMERICAN BEAUTY. As we have not seen a dust-wrapper for a 1931 printing of CIMARRON in a dust-wrapper, we do not know if this is it or another rejected dust-wrapper printed later. Source book for the Academy Award winning film.

Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY / A.B.A.A / 1979, ROCHESTER, MI, U.S.A.

FERBER, Edna. Cimarron. Doubleday, Doran and Company, Garden City, 1930.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Fine

Description: First edition. Fine in near fine dustwrapper with a small scrape at the top of the front panel. Inscribed by the author in the year of publication: "Inscribed for Alice Fells. Edna Ferber. April 1930." A novel of frontier life in Oklahoma. Wesley Ruggles directed the 1931 film starring Richard Dix and Irene Dunne, in her first major role, as a couple who brave the Oklahoma Land Rush (one of the greatest western scenes ever filmed) and then help settle the territory. It was an early winner of the Academy Award for Best Picture, and screenwriter Howard Estabrook also won an Oscar. A very nice copy, and uncommon signed.

Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.

Ferber, Edna. Cimarron ( signed ). Doubleday Doran, 1930.

Price: US$1000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: Stated "first edition" in a good jacket with chipping at the top and bottom of the spine, edge wear,a small hole about the size of a dime roughly in the center of the spine, chipping at all corners, $2.50 on the jacket flap. Spine lean, spotting to the boards, and a large bookplate on the cover verso making the condition of this copy only good. Signed by Ferber and dated Phoenix 1934. Despite condition issues a very scarce signed and dated copy.

Seller: Ink, Portland, OR, U.S.A.