Edna Ferber - So Big - HC 1924 1st 1st - First STATED - PULITZER PRIZE

Description: Ferber, Edna - So Big - Doubleday Page & Co: New York, 1924 - First Edition / First Printing - “First Edition” stated on the copyright page as required in order to denote the first printing of the first edition. “Some day I'll probably marry a horny-handed son of a toil, and if I do it'll be the horny hands that will win me. If you want to know, I like 'em with their scars on them. There's something about a man who has fought for it - I don't know what it is - a look in his eye - the feel of his hand. He needn't have been successful - thought he probably would be. I don't know. I'm not very good at this analysis stuff. I know he - well, you haven't a mark on you. Not a mark. You quit being an architect, or whatever it was, because architecture was an uphill disheartening job at the time. I don't say that you should have kept on. For all I know you were a bum architect. But if you had kept on - if you had loved it enough to keep on - fighting, and struggling, and sitcking it out - why, that fight would show in your face to-day - in your eyes and your jaw and your hands and in your way of standing and walking and sitting and talking. Listen. I'm not critcizing you. But you're all smooth. I like 'em bumpy.” The book has heavy wear to the boards with sunning, rubbing, bumping and soiling. The binding is broken at the front and rear end pages— that being said the block is still relatively square and firm inside of the cracks with no loose pages. There are two variants of this first edition with no known priority between them. Both variants appear in this blueish purple cloth, both state first edition, but, they differ in the alignment of the word “Doubleday” under the words “Garden City” on the title page. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1925. One of the hardest of the early Pulitzers to locate in the first edition. Basis for three film adaptations— in 1924, 1932, and 1953. All books are offered with a full 30 day postage paid return policy. All books which are in dust jackets will be mailed with a clear archival dust jacket protector fitted. Shipping costs can be combined if multiple purchases are made. Items will be packaged and shipped within one business day unless otherwise noted. Please always feel free to contact us with any questions or concerns.

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