8vo. Original black cloth lettered in silver on spine; publisher’s dust jacket (a few short tears, some rubbing and slight chipping to extremities). Provenance: Collector’s embossed stamp on title-page, signature.

FIRST EDITION of Ferber’s novel, the source of a 1956 film of the same name, directed by George Stevens and starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean, who tragically died in a car crash during production of the film.