Peculiar Treasure, A., with signed photograph of Cather as a young woman.
Ferber, Edna. A Peculiar Treasure. New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1939.
Large 8vo, 398pp; illustrated with 22 photographs, including a picture of Ferber at the Ernests' summer place on Nantucket; laid in is an early photograph of the writer, probably during her last years in Appleton, Wisconsin (with her hair long, rather than bobbed), 4-5/8 x 6-7/8”, which is a formal portrait, 3/4 view (head and shoulders), with tiny touches of rust marks (possibly from a paper clip) at lower margin and evidences of mounting at reverse; a corner has been turned down at 389 where Ferber remarks that she had never had copies of all her books “until Morris Ernst gave them to me, in finest leather and tooling...”; black and white decorated paper over boards; printed gold label at spine; t.e.g., with publisher’s original slipcase; extremities worn; publisher’s cardboard box worn along top edge.
First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to Morris Ernst on the front endpaper: Dear Morrie and Margaret you’re both P.T.s in my life. Affectionately—Edna. Signed in pencil in the writer’s youthful (and less stylized hand), on the first blank, Edna Ferber. The first volume of the writer’s autobiography and, according to Diane Lichtenstein writing in Jewish Women Fiction Writers, “provides the most explicit revelation of Ferber’s Jewish self.” With signed photograph of the writer as a young woman.
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