Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Dark green titles with gilt decoration on light green cloth, 334 pages. Spine is sunned but clearly legible, Previous owner's name inked at top of inside front cover.
Seller: Canal Bookyard, Upper Black Eddy, PA, U.S.A.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Price: US$29.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, second printing with 1933 on the title and copyright page but no "A" on the copyright page. Hardback book is lacking the jacket. The book is sturdy, clean and complete with some fading to the spine. Owner initials on the front endpaper, else very clean and neat.
Seller: Foster Books, Board of Directors FABA, Davie, FL, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$32.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 334pp.; HB lt.blue w/blue&gilt; rubbed w/soil&stain; wear on edges&corners; spine sunned; some lt.tan w/clean,tight pgs. Author's first novel
Seller: Xochi's Bookstore & Gallery, truth or consequences, NM, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Price: US$44.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Scribner's seal but no letter on Publishers page, 1933 both on title page and copyright on Publishers page - early printing, toning with light soiling to edges of text block - light rubbing to bottom edges of boards and spine with a 5/8" line of unraveling of cloth covering to bottom edge of front board and a 7/8" line to rear board - a very small spot of loss to cloth covering to bottom corner of front board - several tiny spots of soiling/foxing to front/rear end papers - 2 tiny holes to upper fore-edge of page 231 and two tiny chips to fore edge with 11/8" wide x 1/4" deep piece chewed away to bottom edge of page 233, mylar enclosed dj shows toning, edge wear, light soiling with scuffing to folds - two very short tears with creasing along top edge with creasing to bottom edge of front panel - 1/8" tear to top edge with chipping and creasing along bottom edge of rear panel - 2" wide x 3/4" deep piece missing to top and 11/2" wide x 1/2" deep piece missing with further 3/8" and 3/4" tears to bottom of spine - chips to top/bottom of fold front panel to flap - chips to top/bottom with holes from insect damage to center 4" of fold rear panel to flap - 11/2" wide x 1/8" deep piece missing from insect damage to bottom edge of front flap, original price intact
Seller: H.S. Bailey, Fort Myers, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$49.00 + shipping
Description: Early Rawlings title. Very scarce in this condition. Fine copy (light spine sunning, name on end paper, spine slightly cocked). 334 pps. First edition, second printing. No "A" on copyright page.
Seller: BookMine, Fair Oaks, CA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$49.99 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Date on title page matches copyright date. Scribner seal on copyright page. Unfortunately no Scribner "A" Good only in fair dust jacket. 3" tear with paper loss along front hinge. Edge wear including creasing, short tears and slight paper loss. Jacket not price-clipped. Front hinge of book has slight separation between flyleaf and half title page. Hinge sound. No prior owner markings or bookplate. A presentable copy for the budget minded collector of the author's first book.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: Second Printing, with the publisher's seal (though lacking the 'A') on the copyright page, and the length of the alligator mentioned on p.184 reduced to "twenty feet." Octavo (19.25cm); light green cloth, with titling and decorative elements stamped in gilt and dark blue on spine and front cover; green topstain; dustjacket; [viii],334,[2]pp. Trivial wear to extremities, contemporary owner's ink name to front endpaper, else a fresh, very Near Fine copy. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced $2.00), showing light wear and dust-soil to extremities, and a few small surface abrasions to front panel; Very Good+ or better. The author's first book, a novel spanning three generations of a family in the Florida swamps. COAN, p.7; HANNA 2964.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. SOUTH MOON UNDER. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$86.25 + shipping
Description: 334 pages. Scribner colophon on copywright page, but no "A". Prervious owner's name top of title page. Pages good condition. Foredges yellowed. Front endpapers show some wear. Black marker mark on top of front paste down endpaper. Ffep lightly soiled. Green cloth with gilt bands and blue titles. Head of spine at front edge is liglhlty faded. Edges and corners worn with bottom corners lighlty bumped. VG-
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Rawlings, Marjorie. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An attractive book, very clean pages. Prior owners name on front inside. Some fading and minor soiling to covers. No dustjacket; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; South Moon Under is full of detail and suspense. This story of subsistence living in the Florida scrub country was written by Rawlings after visiting a moonshiner family and seeing their marginal and difficult life.
Seller: Hammonds Antiques & Books, St. Louis, MO, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$100.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: publishers edition from 1933 but not first printing.
Seller: Gumshoe Books, Columbia, SC, U.S.A.
Price: US$135.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: The first title by this noted author is a first edition dust jacket covering a third-printing book, of which there were only 10,600 copies printed. This Near Fine copy of the book has only minor wear on top and bottom of spine, and is tightly bound with clean and bright paper. There is a $2.00 price on front flap of the dust jacket, which is in Very Good condition with wear at top and bottom of spine and creases on front cover. The pictoral jacket is hauntingly drawn by Carroll Snell. There is no letter "A" on the copyright page, which the first edition has. Also indicative of this third edition printing: page 184, the alligator weights 20 pounds, instead of the 30 pounds it weighed in the first edition.
Seller: Kaleidoscope Books & Collectibles, Ann Arbor, MI, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Second state with "twenty" on p. 184, line 20. The volume is bumped, wrinkled, and sunned on then spine ends. has a bookplate ono the front pastredowen, and the text leaves are gently toned. The uncipped dust jacket, protected in a sleeve, has abraswions, creases and spoine end chips. The publisher's name at the base of the spine is affected by the chips and abrasions.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition with the Scribner's 'A' on copyright page. Boards in green cloth with blue lettering and gilt striping on spine and front cover. Green top stain shows a bit of dust soiling. Interior is unmarked. Small worm hole near bottom edge of pages 35-70. Dust jacket edge-worn; some surface wear on spine; small spot of soiling on rear panel; not price clipped ($2.00); in an archival mylar sleeve. 334 pages. Scarce first printing with dust jacket of the first novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings.
Seller: Boyd Used & Rare Books, Portland, OR, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: The scarce first book from the author of The Yearling. First edition, hardcover, owner's address on front endpaper, slight lean, erasures to text block, top corners lightly bumped, tiny spot and very small tear to rear pastedown, front cover a bit rubbed, spine a bit faded, otherwise tight and clean, a NEAR VG copy, in a G+ dustjacket which has a crease running from the front inside flap all the way around to the rear inside flap, some edgewear and a few other creases, some tiny chips and wear to the spine ends and corners, several small nicks and a long reading crease to the spine, and a bit of soiling to the rear panel.
Seller: Fahrenheit's Books, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. South Moon Under. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, 1933.
Price: US$679.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Signed and inscribed on the ffep by the author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, as follows: "To James R. Lawson/Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings". This is a first edition, but it is not the first printing. I know that because on page 184 the big bull alligator was said to be twenty feet. In the first printing of 2945 copies the alligator was said to be thirty feet. In all subsequent printings it was changed to twenty feet. This is an apparent third printing. This is not a book of the month club edition. The second printing was 44,000 copies (BOMC) while the third printing was 10,600 copies. This is the author's first novel which was an instantaneous critical and popular success. This volume has been professionally repaired by reinforcing the inside of the front and back covers and reinforcing the spine at the top and bottom with buckram. Since a trace of foxing was beginning it was professionally sprayed to prevent any further foxing, although it is barely noticeable. This work was done by a European-trained Professional English Hand Bookbinder with more than a half a century of experience. Book itself is now housed in a clear protective brodart jacket. 334 pages. All lettering on front cover and spine is sharp. A historic signatures of the great Pultizer Prize winning author, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. A Florida treasure. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box!
Seller: James Lasseter, Jr, Brooksville, FL, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.. South Moon Under.. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933, 1933.
Price: US$962.45 + shipping
Description: First edition, first printing, of the author's first book, the present copy in a notably attractive example of the dust jacket. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1896-1953) was one of the best American local colorist writers of the first half of the twentieth century. Her "contribution to American literature is her memorable evocation of the harsh, colorful, enchanting cracker realm of north Florida's Big Scrub", clear in the present work which "featured Florida "crackers": poor rural whites of Scottish or English stock, with their own archaic vernacular. Deeply empathetic with them and fascinated by their folkways (moonshining, alligator hunting, making do in the wilderness with minimal resources), she lived not only among the crackers but on occasion with them, gathering rich literary material" (ANB). Octavo. Original green cloth, titles to spine and front cover in blue, gilt rule to front cover and spine. With dust jacket. An excellent copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom