SHOW BOAT First Edition EDNA FERBER 1926 Steamboat Roaring 20s Mississippi River

Description: SHOW BOATby Edna FerberPublished by Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York, 1926. First Edition. Good hardcover, in good dustjacket. Dampstaining to spine, tight binding, solid spine, strong hinges & joints, clean unmarked text, dj has chips to both top & bottom extremes, unclipped showing original $2.00 price, now in archival mylar wrapper. Illustrated endpapers, dyed top edge, 398 pages, small 8vo. 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. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction Era riverboat to Gilded Age Chicago to Roaring Twenties New York, and finally returns to the Mississippi River.Loc: E9StoreAdd to FavoritesFeedbackSHOW BOAT First Edition EDNA FERBER 1926 Steamboat Roaring 20s Mississippi River SHOW BOATby Edna FerberPublished by Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City, New York, 1926. First Edition. Good hardcover, in good dustjacket. Dampstaining to spine, tight binding, solid spine, strong hinges & joints, clean unmarked text, dj has chips to both top & bottom extremes, unclipped showing original $2.00 price, now in archival mylar wrapper. Illustrated endpapers, dyed top edge, 398 pages, small 8vo. 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. It chronicles the lives of three generations of performers on the Cotton Blossom, a floating theater on a steamboat that travels between small towns along the banks of the Mississippi River, from the 1880s to the 1920s. The story moves from the Reconstruction Era riverboat to Gilded Age Chicago to Roaring Twenties New York, and finally returns to the Mississippi River.Loc: E9

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Features: Dust Jacket

Format: Hardcover

Personalize: No

Number of Pages: 398

Topic: General, Mississippi River, Roaring Twenties, Literature, Entertainment, Steamboat

Book Series: NONE

Vintage: Yes

Era: 1920s

Country/Region of Manufacture: United States

Ex Libris: No

Edition: First Edition

Language: English

Publication Year: 1926

Book Title: SHOW BOAT

Intended Audience: Adults, Young Adults

Author: Edna Ferber

Original Language: English

Signed By: N/A

Narrative Type: Fiction

Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Co., Garden City,

Inscribed: No

Signed: No

Genre: Drama, Novel, Entertainment, Classic

Personalized: No

Type: Hardcover