Show Boat, Signed (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 1st Edition. The cover has red cloth with goldtone letters and an embossed illustration of two boats at dock. 303 pages; b/w frontispiece and 16 glossy plates with b/w illustrations on both sides. A fold-out illustration is a facsimile of a handbill, advertising the drama, Uncle Tom's Cabin. The author wrrote 1936 below his signature which is in blue pencil on the half-title page. The top end of the text block is blue; the other two ends have darkened. The bottom corner of the text block has been bumped, causing wavy lines, 1/4 in. to 1 1/4 in., on corners of 30 pages. The cloth is faded on the top end of the spine strip and less so along the bottom edge of the spine strip and the along the top edge of the front board. DJ: The spine panel is missing. The flaps are present but split from the from the front and back panels, which are chipped along the edges. Scans e-mailed upon request. Signed by the Authors.

Condition: Good. 2009. No Edition Remarks. Unpaginated. Signed by the author. Illustrated paper cover with lettering. Contains colour illustrations. Signed by the author with dedication to Blakney on title page. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning. Binding remains firm. Paper covers have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and curling to corners. Lettering is clear. Minor wear marks to covers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated (illustrator). First Edition. First edition. Original cloth. Inscribed on the half-title: "To 'Bill' Boyle of Springfield 'Mass' sincerely Capt. Billy Bryant 1936.". Signed by Author(s).

single-sheet from a boat show catalogue with signed photographs of tiny boat Atlantic sailors Tom McClean and Bill Dunlop. [postage will be reduced when this order is processed. Please see our storefront page for shipping information.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Inscribed by Miles Kreuger on the half title page. Inscribed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. ASSOCIATION COPY. Red and gold cloth, spine panel lettered in gold foil. Minor rubbing to corners and spine extremities, otherwise as issued. Illus. dust jacket shows several closed edge tears (one with mild surface loss), area of spray-paint (?) at top rear corner, a few small edge chips, now in mylar. An association copy, of sorts, inscribed by Broadway actor Max Showalter on dedication page, on which the author mentions having been taken by his grandmother to his first Broadway show, "Knights of Song" -- Showalter's inscription notes this play to be "my first Broadway show - 51st St. Theatre, 1938"; Showalter played in the 1946 Broadway production of "Show Boat," which, like "Knights of Song," had lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Association Copy. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Book is lightly worn, rubbed, and soiled. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Second printing. Flat-signed and inscribed by author on half-title page. Lavender and blue quarter-cloth boards with silver foil-stamped spine. Exceptionally clean, square and solid. Flaws: very slight bumping to two bottom corners only. NO other flaws. NO markings throughout - NO rem mark or ex-lib. DJ has NO flaws and is protected in archival covers. Price intact: $35.00. Photos avail upon request. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. "Show Boat" 1983 Theatre Programme, signed by Paige O'Hara (the voice of Belle in Disney's Beauty & the Beast), Donald O'Connor, Karla Burns, Paul Keith and two autographs that I can't decipher. These are genuine autographs, not a photocopy or preprint. Please note, this is a single page that has been taken out of a 1983 Playbill. Provenance: This came direct from the Jan van Bree estate. Jan van Bree (1938-2024) was a Dutch native and a prolific autograph collector. His collection spanned around fifty albums. It began in 1957 when he wrote to the famous Italian singer Beniamino Gigli and received a handwritten reply. That one letter spurred Jan to write to as many famous people as possible, all over the world and to collect autographs in person. Signed by Author(s).

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).

Autogrammkarte (blanko, Leinen) mit eigenhändiger Alters-Unterschrift signiert - mit Repro-Porträtfoto unter bordeauxrotes Passepartout (4 to) gerahmt.

Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 4to. Pp. x, 246. Illustrated. Two-color cloth, spine lettered in gilt, small snag to top edge of front endpaper else clean. Illustrated red dust jacket with faint crease along front panel. Warmly inscribed by the author to "a friend and fellow film historian". Laid in is a fine copy the program for The 50th Anniversary of Showboat 1927 - 1977 celebration by the The Institute of the American Musical. Krueger was the Founder and President of the organization, which is dedicated to the native American art forms of the stage and screen musical. Program is signed "Best Wishes" by Krueger. Based on the best-selling 1926 novel by Edna Ferber. Dust jacket is now housed in a removable, clear archival protector.

Photos, folding facsimile poster, red cloth, 303 pp, covers worn and faded, extremities bumped, ex-lib with usual markings, inner hinges cracked, hinges loose, blue pencil name. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED BY CAPT. BILLY BRYANT, ALSO SIGNED BY BETTY, JOSEPHINE, SAM, VIOLET AND FLORENCE BRYANT, all in blue pencil. ALSO SIGNED YB ST. LOUIS CARDINALS "PEPPER" MARTIN, BILL McGEE, L(ON) WARNEKE, B(OB) WEILAND AND MIKE ANTON all in pencil.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Modern Library edition. 12mo. Cloth over flexible boards. Some cloth lacking at the bottom quarter of the spine with the front board detached but present, a good only copy. Inscribed by the author to Marian Seldes, Tony Award-winning actress and daughter of author Gilbert Sledes: "For Marian, Love & kisses, Ferber.".

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Octavo. 398pp. Publisher's quarter parchment and paper-covered boards, gilt spine. Spine moderately toned and with neat gift inscription, near fine in very good paper-covered slipcase with a printed paper spine label. Copy no. 79 of 201 copies printed on rag paper (and matching number on the slipcase). Signed in green ink by Edna Ferber.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Later printing. Publisher's tan cloth boards, spine lettered in black. Moderately rubbed at the edges and lightly bumped, very good. Inscribed to the actress Mercedes McCambridge, including a mention of a character in the book: "Dear Mercedes McCambridge, what a Parthy you would be fifty years from now. Edna Ferber, August 1955." This book was signed just after Ferber's visit to the set of *Giant* in late July 1955. This copy also has a series of penciled page numbers on the front pastedown from McCambridge that correspond to small notations. A nice association copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First edition. Small octavo. 398pp. Publisher's quarter dark blue cloth and checkered orange, yellow and navy paste-paper boards. Spine cocked with lettering faded, crease on front cover and wear at the edges of the boards, good or better, lacking the unprinted tissue jacket. One of 1000 copies especially bound for presentation only. Inscribed in ink on the front free endpaper: "Dear Fay, I haven't one of these myself - and that's what I think of you. Edna Ferber, September, 1926." Basis for the musical of the same name.

Limited Edition, copy #18 of 201. A sweeping tale of three generations performers aboard the Cotton Blossom, a Mississippi River showboat. The novel explores themes of love, struggle, and social issues like racism, reflecting the vibrant and tumultuous American experience through the lives of its performers in the 1880s to 1920s. Ferber's novel has a connection to the Chesapeake Bay in that she drew inspiration from experiences and atmosphere aboard the Bay's James Adams Floating Theatre which she visited in 1925. This work was immortalized by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II in their famous Broadway show of the same name in 1927. A spectacular copy, one of only 201 copies in this signed limited edition of this American classic. Fine in a near fine slipcase. Bound in dark green paper over boards with white spine, gilt titles and ornaments to spine, gilt ornaments to four corners of upper board, top edge gilt. Slipcase has a few mild rubs at extremities and a small chip to binding paper at bottom left of opening. Hardcover in slipcase. Octavo. [iv], 398 pages.

Hardcover. First Edition. Copy #64 of only 201 numbered and SIGNED copies of perhaps Ferber's best-known book, published a year after her Pulitzer-Prize winning SO BIG. Source for the musical and film starring Paul Robeson. Spine a bit darkened with a very short closed tear at the top. Very Good, lacking as usual the slipcase.

Signed/Limited Edition. 398pp. 8.75" x 6" "AN IRRESISTIBLE STORY." Book collectors can easily rattle off the high spots of twentieth-century fiction with all points and states in place; the Mount Rushmore of writers holds firm in stature and value, mint copies of Fitzgerald passing from one collection to another, like faberge eggs, glittering on the shelf. The period had a rhythmic pulse that was alive, unfettered, modern: American fiction of the 1920s. At that same time, Edna Ferber's (1885-1968) novels were instant bestsellers, many of them memorably adapted by her to film, stage, and musical theater. In temperament she was more aligned with the Algonquins than the expatriates, her home base was NYC, not Paris, her favorite writer was Charles Dickens. She remained "popular" until her last novel in 1958. Show Boat remains one of her most enduringly influential novels, capturing the vanished world of life on the Mississippi river. Doubleday Page had been publishing signed limited editions since the turn of the century, and a peek at the list of those for the decade of the 1920s reveals their taste for literary eclecticism that includes Conrad, Kipling, Tarkington, Conan Doyle, Ellen Glasgow, and Ferber. Limited to 201 signed and numbered copies (of which this is 86), distinguished by Ferber's bold signature in turquoise ink, the vellum spine and green paper boards with gilt starburst corner devices, is a special invitation to experience a true storyteller's gift 100 years later which, once started, is hard to resist. Owner's bookplate, spine very slightly darkened and with minor crimp to upper spine tip, else fine in custom mylar cover and very good publisher's slipcase with some expert restoration to seams and a small chip along one edge. Quarter cream over green boards, titled and accented in gilt, teg, housed in publisher's slipcase with limitation spine label.

Hardcover. First Edition. Copy #76 of only 201 numbered and SIGNED copies of perhaps Ferber's best-known book, published a year after her Pulitzer-Prize winning SO BIG. Source for the musical and film starring Paul Robeson. Bookplate on the front free endpaper; a little soiling to the spine. Still Near Fine in an intact, Very Good slipcase with some splitting at the top edge.

Decorative Cloth Checkerboard. Condition: Fine -. Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued. First Edition. "ONE THOUSAND COPIES ONLY OF THIS BOOK / HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY BOUND BY / DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. / FOR PRESENTATION / ONLY." this copy issued in a special decorative binding without a dust jacket it is and was wrapped in wax paper, signed "To Haas" CW (presumably by Percival Christpher Wren in pencil but that is not figured into the price, these presentation copies are harder to come by than the signed edition, this unread copy is still slightly worn on the bottom from just being on the shelf a bright copy of what is probably the best copy of this special edition ever offered for sale, the four corners of the front & back cover slightly worn, bright covers and endpapers like new, price from 1926 written inside in pencil of $15.00 1926 dollars.

8vo. [pp. 12]. wrs. First Edition, privately printed for the author, this #12 of an unspecified numbered of copies signed by the Sitwell.

First Edition. From the library of actor Alan Young, signed and inscribed by the author Miles Kreuger: ÒAlan, After years of being a fan, it is a great privilege to become your friend. Warmest best wishes always, Miles Kreuger, Los Angeles, July 17, 1984.Ó Also signed by Alan Young and with his blind stamp. Oversize format, illustrated throughout with photographs of the many productions of the musical Show Boat, adapted from the best-selling novel by Edna Ferber, by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II. Near fine bright copy with a trace of edge wear in a near fine dust jacket with a couple of very tiny tears and one 1Ó tear to the top edge at the front spine fold. Some of the songs in the production are, OlÕ Man River, CanÕt Help LovinÕ Dat Man, Make Believe, and Bill. Show Boat has been performed by the top of the musical theater world, including Irene Dunne, Shirley Jones, Joe E. Brown, Brock Peters, Andy Devine, Arthur Godfrey, Helen Noyes, Ruta Lee, etc. It has subsequently has been adapted into three film versions. Alan Young worked with the most famous talking horse, Mister Ed, one of the most beloved television shows of all time. He is also known for his role of Filby, opposite Rod Taylor in the classic film version of H.G. WellsÕ The Time Machine (1960) directed by George Pal, and has appeared in such motion pictures as Mr. Belvedere Goes to College, Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick, Androcles and the Lion, and has provided the voice for Scrooge McDuck for Walt Disney cartoon films. In 1952 Alan Young received two EmmyÕs for ÔThe Alan Young Show.Õ.