Ferber, Edna. – Giant. A novel.

Original $3.95 Dust Jacket. Doubleday & Company, Inc, New York, New York. First Edition, First Printing. Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1952. A desirable first edition of Edna Ferber’s sweeping Texas novel Giant, later adapted into the celebrated 1956 film starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. The copyright page explicitly states „FIRST EDITION,“ confirming the first printing of the Doubleday edition. Bound in the publisher’s original black cloth with orange endpapers and orange topstain, and housed in the original Fred McCarroll-designed dust jacket. The front flap retains the original $3.95 publisher’s price, an important first-edition point. Comparable first-edition copies are likewise described with the $3.95 jacket price and this binding configuration. The novel became one of Ferber’s best-known works and provided the basis for James Dean’s final film role. – Edge with some foxing, the dust-jacket with some minor tears and some foxing, reverse side a bit browned.