Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$16.74 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: SHIPS FROM USA. Used books have different signs of use and do not include supplemental materials such as CDs, Dvds, Access Codes, charts or any other extra material. All used books might have various degrees of writing, highliting and wear and tear and possibly be an ex-library with the usual stickers and stamps. Dust Jackets are not guaranteed and when still present, they will have various degrees of tear and damage. All images are Stock Photos, not of the actual item.
Seller: Irish Booksellers, Portland, ME, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$18.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Acceptable/Fair condition. Book is worn, but the pages are complete, and the text is legible. Has wear to binding and pages, may be ex-library.
Seller: Book Deals, Tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$18.58 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within
Seller: Books Unplugged, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1955.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Spine ends worn with light fraying and short tears, lower corners worn so that cardboard shows, light edgewear. DJ has pieces missing at spine ends, large chips, faint creases, heavy edgewear, price-clipped.
Seller: Yesterday's Books, Coos Bay, OR, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: First edition. Tan cloth stamped with white. Some water spots to edges, mostly about 1/2 " top front board and spine. No odor. Dj worn and scraped, edge tears and rubbing. Book plate and name/date in ink inside front cover.; 8.0 X 6.0 X 0.4 inches; 57 pages
Seller: Isaiah Thomas Books & Prints, Inc., Cotuit, MA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, (1955), New York, 1955.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Unpaginated. Illustrated. Dust jacket protected in a mylar sleeve. Dust jacket has very minor edge wear, a 1/2" closed tear and small corner chips at the top of the spine, price clipped. Book in in fine condtion with an inscription on the front free end paper to a girl from her school, dated July 14, 1955.
Seller: ARABESQUE BOOKS, Atlanta, GA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. THE SECRET RIVER. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$104.69 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 0.6
Seller: BennettBooksLtd, North Las Vegas, NV, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$129.06 + shipping
Condition: New
Description: Brand New!
Seller: Save With Sam, North Miami, FL, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition with "A" on copyright. Bound in brown woven cloth with white illustration and title on cover and spine. Unpaginated brown pages profusely illustrated in black and white. Interior only marked by owner's name penned to front fly. Binding secure. Cloth is a bit worn around corners and ends. Text block foxed. Includes dust jacket, presenting in good condition, unclipped and protected in brodart. Large chips are missing from spine panel, now repaired with tape by a previous owner. Few spots of faint foxing and brown soiling. Creases and chips around edges.
Seller: Chamblin Bookmine, Jacksonville, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1955. First Edition with "A" to copyright page. Octavo. Unpaginated. Illustrations throughout. Illustrated dust jacket with $2.50 price present. Brown boards stamped in white; tan endpapers. Dust jacket lightly worn along edges with some minor creasing and a couple short closed tears. Boards show a touch of wear at extremities and corners bumped. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Very Good or better.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan.. The Secret River. Illustrated byLeonard Weisgard.. Scribner's, 1955.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Near Fine copy with previous owner stamp to the front flyleaf in a Very Good plus, unclipped dust jacket with a small chip to the head of the spine and some wear to the spine heel. This story of a young black girl who sets out to find a "secret river" with enough fish to feed her struggling family, was intended to be a longer work of novel length that would address the universal child and the enchantment of childhood imagination. But Rawlings' bouts of writer's block prevented her from expanding the length of this poignant children's tale. The story was not published during her lifetime (she died in 1953) and remained in manuscript form until it was found in her papers after her death. It is her only children's story, and the only fully realized work that she left unpublished. Even though there were reportedly 18,000 copies printed in the First Printing, this is a very elusive Rawlings title in collector's condition.
Seller: Gregor Rare Books, Langley, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: Scarce first printing of this Newbery Honor-winning work by the author of THE YEARLING, a magical realism tale of a young Black girl's efforts to feed her community during the Great Depression. THE SECRET RIVER turned up among Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings's papers after her death, a fully finished manuscript "quite different in style from her other work" (Introduction). Printed on brown paper with richly textured black-and-white illustrations by Leonard Weisgard, the physical form of this book creates additional atmosphere for Rawlings's story of a Florida forest. Issued at a period when US publishers rarely showcased Black heroes in children's books, it set the stage for other award-winning books like THE SNOWY DAY - though a Black author would not win the Newbery Honor until Virginia Hamilton in 1974, with M.C. HIGGINS, THE GREAT. 8'' x 6''. Original brown pictorial cloth binding. Original price-clipped color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in black and white. Unpaginated, printed on brown paper. Jacket with light edgewear, a bit of loss to lower spine; one small tape reinforcement to verso. Binding with mild bumping to spine ends. Tight and clean. Near fine in very good plus dust jacket.
Seller: Type Punch Matrix, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Secret River. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1955.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in fine dustwrapper. A lovely copy of this posthumously published children's book. A scarce title, and when found usually in poor condition.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. First edition (with "A" on title page), signed by Weisgard on ffep. Published posthumously, it is understood that she and her editor held back publishing it hoping to expand it into a larger work. Richly illustrated by Weisgard, the story is lovely in its own right and was Rawlings only true "children's" book. Quite rare as Weisgard did not sign a great number of books; a very handsome copy. Minimal shelf/edge wear, artist's signature on ffep, else tight, bright and unmarred. DJ shows very minor shelf/edge wear, hint of toning at spine, small closed tear at rear of head, else bright and clean. Brown cloth boards, white ink lettering and pictorial elements, brown paper leaves. Small 8vo. np. Illus. (black and white ink plates).
Seller: Lux Mentis, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB, Portland, ME, U.S.A.