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| | Author: Ferber, Edna
| | Price: $100.00USD | | Binding: Cloth
| | Publication Date: 1953
| | Condition: Fine/Very Good
| | GillmantonCode: 27 | | Edition: First Edition
| | Publisher: Doubleday & Co.
|  | | Description: Octavo 447 pp. First Edition stated on copyright page. Black cloth
with silver gilt printing on the spine. Endpapers are colored orange
with author's initials in white on FFEP. Top edge stained rust
colored and fore edge deckled. Colorful dust jacket designed by Fred
McCarroll. Slight edgewear on jacket with two tiny tears at head of
spine. One inch repaired tear at top edge of lower cover of jacket.
B/w photo of the author on lower cover by Philippe Halsman. Price
intact on jacket flap. The novel about the changing landscape and
socio-economics of the state of Texas. Made into a film starring
Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor and winning an Oscar for the
Director George Stevens. With a final performance by James Dean and
a talented supporting cast that included Mercedes McCambridge, Chill
Wills, Carroll Baker, Dennis Hopper, Earl Holliman and Sal Mineo.
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