Description
Signed limited edition of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Octavo, viii, [6], 400pp. Green cloth, gilt title on spine, illustration on cover. Top edge gilt, uncut edges. Illustrated end papers. Scribner’s “A” on copyright page. 14 color illustrations, 2 black and white illustrations and a facsimile letter from N.C. Wyeth inserted after title page. Contains first edition point on pp. 196, lacking sentence between line 5&6. Publisher’s original slipcase in fair condition, separation at seams, toning to edges.
This is a limited edition of 770 copies signed by Rawlings and illustrator N.C. Wyeth.
Comments: First published in March of 1938, The Yearling would become the best selling novel of 1938 and won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939.
