Description
First edition, first printing of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, in the publisher’s first state 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, light toning along hinges, as is typical with this book. Offsetting to endpapers
In the publisher’s first state dust jacket, $2.50 retail price on front flap, chipped edges, loss at heel of the spine, light soiling, shelf wear to panels. The first state dust jacket, with “Book-of-the-Month Club Selection” statement on the rear panel and a four-paragraph description by the publisher. The second state jacket has media reviews on the back panel and lacks any mention of “Book-of-the Month Club.” 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).
