Description
First edition, first printing of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in the publisher’s early issue dust jacket.
Octavo, [viii], 428pp. Beige cloth, title in green on front cover and spine. Scribner’s “A” and Scribner’s seal listed on copyright page, indicating first printing. Solid text block, foxing to spine, covers, and edges. Offsetting to endpapers. In the publisher’s early state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price to front flap, chipped edges, sunned spine, with shelf wear. This copy lacks the “Book-of-the-Month Club Selection” statement on the rear panel and includes a blurb from the “Atlantic Monthly,” making it a second state jacket. Tape repairs to verso along spine. Includes detailed woodcut chapter headings by Edward Shenton. (Silvey, 551) (Tarr A3.1.a)
The Yearling was the best selling novel of 1938 in the United States, with over 250,000 copies sold. It received the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (previously called “Pulitzer Prize for the Novel” until 1947).
