This is a first edition hardcover copy of Fannie HURST's "Imitation of Life," published in 1933 by Harper Brothers. This rare edition is a collectors need. No dust jacket. The cover has some separation. The pages have the patina and wear of age. Some edge wear on pages. A novel by a white women about two single mothers, one white and one black, who create a successful restaurant franchise together but through their daughters suffer at the hands racial prejudice and tragic choices. The novel was filmed twice, first in 1934 with Claudette Colbert and Louise Beavers, and again in 1959 with Lana Turner and Juanita Moore. The first film was nominated for Best Picture and named to the National Film Registry in 2005, while the Douglas Sirk remake is now considered a classic of 1950s cinema and one of the German director's masterpieces. Hurst, while popular in her day, has largely been forgotten, despite her championing of women's rights and racial equality, particularly during the Harlem Renaissance and through her friendship with Zora Neale Hurston. A remarkably scarce title .