AMERICAN BEAUTY by Edna Ferber/CONNECTICUT /POLISH /1st

Here for your delectation is the SPECTACULAR & RARE---------------------AMERICAN BEAUTY by Edna Ferber.

American Beauty is a novel by American author Edna Ferber. Set in the Housatonic region of Connecticut, the story, spanning the years 1700 to 1930, relates the steady decline of the Oakes family and their property, as well as their tense relations with Polish immigrants.

The title comes from a line within the book. According to the story, Christopher Wren, who helped design the Oakes family mansion, said Connecticut has "a kind of American beauty," resembling Kent but possessing larger and higher landscapes.

By 1890, all that was left of the Oakes line was the spinster Judith. Then Ondia Olszak, a rugged, full-blooded Pole with a love for the land came to work. For the first time in her life, Judith was happy, until Tamar, the orphaned daughter of her sister shows up.

This is the softcover only stated Fawcett Edition from May 1974.  Both the cover and the book are in excellent condition. There are no rips, tears, markings, etc.---and the pages and binding are tight (see photo).  **Note: All books listed as FIRST EDITIONS are stated by the publisher in words or number lines--or--only stated editions that include only the publisher and publication date.  Check my feedback to see that I sell exactly as I describe. So bid now for this magnificent, impossible-to-find LITERARY COLLECTIBLE.