Show boat : a novel / by Edna Ferber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ferber, Edna, 1887-1968, author, autographer.

Contributor:

Doubleday, Page & Company, publisher.

Country Life Press, printer.

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Fiction.

Families.

Steamboats--Fiction.

Steamboats.

Mississippi River--Fiction.

Mississippi River.

American fiction--20th century.

American fiction.

Actors and actresses--Fiction.

Actors and actresses.

Genre:

Fiction.

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Penn Provenance:

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Marion, Frances, 1888-1973 (stamp) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 398 pages ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

Garden City, N.Y. : Printed in the United States at The Country Life Press.

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday, Page & Company, 1926.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"Of this book: 201 copies have been printed by Doubleday, Page & Co. on rag paper. This first edition was issued on August 19th, 1926. The copies are signed by the author, and numbered 1 to 201, of which this is No. [blank]"--Limitation statement..

Local Notes:

Schimmel Collection copy is number 88 (the copy number supplied in manuscript in red ink) of a limited edition of 201 copies signed by the author. See limitation statement.5

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2016 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has embossed stamp ("FRANCES MARION") on front free endpaper with bookseller's manuscript note in pencil identifying it as the stamp of "Oscar-winning screen writer Frances Marion"

OCLC:

2488035