Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$11.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description:
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$14.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition of the Pulitzer Prize Edition (date on title page; A on copyright page). Tan buckram clothbound without a dustjacket. Exterior is very clean and square at edges, with superb illustration on cloth. Interior text, endpapers and Wyeth illustrations are fine. Very clean and square. Only flaws to book are prior owners name/inscription on inside cover; and split rear hinge. Binding is strong and tight.
Seller: river break books, fort benton, MT, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan; Wyeth, N. C. (illustrator). The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Description: First illustrated edition; 14 color plates by N. C. Wyeth.The volume is bumped on the spine ends and corners, is lightly soiled, has a toned spine, and is edge rubbed with some light fraying on the spine ends. At some point the hinges split and were carelessly glued back together, so much so that the front endpaper sticks above the text block and the top edge is crimped, wrinkled, and has two short closed tears. Some redeeming qualities: the text with the 14 illustrations are present and have only minor disturbances.
Seller: Trilby & Co. Books, San Jose, CA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Rawlings. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Yellow cloth with large front cover paste-on depicting a young boy comforting a small deer on the floor in front of a red rocking chair. Full page color illustrations by N C Wyeth. Front cover paste-on very good with light rubbing. Paste downs and flyleaves with colorful full page illustration. Previous owner's name on verso of front flyleaf. Probably a 1959 publication date with O-6.59[H] on copyright page. Contents clean and tight. PayPal accepted.
Seller: Diamond Island Books, Gorham, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Pulitzer Prize edition. First edition thus with "A" and colophon on copyright page. 400 pages. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. Except for small stain rear, covers are immaculate. Hinges cracked. Gift inscription. (E8)
Seller: Jeff Jeremias Fine Arts, RMABA, Aurora, CO, U.S.A.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling Pictures by N. C. Wyeth. Charles Scribner's, 1939.
Price: US$18.38 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: fading browning buckram boards wonederful color plates by Wyeth thru-out
Seller: Hook's Book Nook, Pottstown, PA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$18.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: True first edition: The Scribner Press colophon and "A" on Copyright page. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize. Boards smudged, spine darkened, lightly bumped and rubbed on ends of spine. Pages darkened along edges, shadow of erased pencil message on ffep, nick in top edge of page 3-5, stain on page 11 and 331, page 37 dog-eared, nick in bottom edge of page 313, thumb mark on page 51 else pages clean and binding firm. Overall, very good minus. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Lindenlea Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$19.21 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The Easton Press, Norwalk, Connecticut, 1992. Collector's Edition bound in leather. Originally published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939. Book condition: near fine and unread. Extremely faint diagonal mark to fore-edge and faint crease mark to very upper edge of some corners adjacent to this - this looks like a slight production fault during binding. All leather (dark green) with six raised bands to spine. Gilt decoration and titles to front and to spine. All edges gilt and a silk bound-in page marker. Silk moire to endpapers. No dust jacket. Contains 14 colour illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. This is a well known and well loved coming of age story with the delightful illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Seller: Ariadne Books, PBFA, Eynsham, Witney, OXON, United Kingdom
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$23.75 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard Cover - VG - NO dust jacke if issued - Book is clean and tight with light wear - 400 pages.
Seller: gigabooks, Spokane, WA, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hard cover in dust jacket. Published NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939, later printing . Small 4to., 7 1/2" x 9 1/4", 400pp., illustrated by N.C. Wyeth, full color plates. Yellow cloth with gilt spine titles and color picotial cover inset, color pictorial endpapers, top edge tinted yellow. Slight fade/discoloration to the cloth on edges of covers, small spot on front edge of page block, else very good in very good dust jacket frayed/chipped along the edges. Size: 4to
Seller: The Wild Muse, Granville, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Later printing of the Illustrated Edition, 1955 (on title page). A Very Good copy, corners rubbed, heel gilt rubbed, but text clean and unmarked. 400pp., with 12 color illustrations in text. Pulitzer Prize winner. Q13752
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN. THE YEARLING. CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NY, 1939.
Price: US$27.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: EIGHTEENTH PRINTING. 2.50DJ, OWNER'S NAME.
Seller: Gian Luigi Fine Books, albany, NY, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Buckram colored boards with illustrated front; illustrated end papers; front and back boards starting to pull away from spine; some minor soiling to cover; Scribner "A" on copyright page; a good reading copy.
Seller: The Book Closet, Walnut, IA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This book is hard-bound in tan, woven cloth with dark brown stamping on the upper cover and spine. The covers show toning/foxing to the edges and spine. The binding is solid. The contents are bright and clean with color illustrations by N. C. Wyeth.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Description: Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. 8vo. Coarse tan cloth with brown lettering and graphic. viii, 400pp. 14 full-page color plates. color pictorial endpapers. Very good. Very minor edgewear, with spine lightly age toned; last two text leaves crudely opened, resulting in loss of several words at upper out corner of each. A tight, clean, attractive first of the "Pulitzer Prize Edition" which followed the year after this 1938 bestseller earned that distinction.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Rawlings Marjorie Kinnan. Yearling, The. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$55.54 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: A Very Good+ yellow Hardcover. Brown titles to the spine , a tipped in color picture, ( boy and deer) to the front cover . Beautifully illustrated end papers and illustrations through the book by N. C. Wyeth. Light spine end wear with a very tiny tear to the spine end bottom. The DJ is in Good- condition, clipped with a large tear to the back cover, cover scuffing. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 400 pages; Box 42
Seller: BYTOWN BOOKERY, Vars, ON, Canada
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. Yearling Pulitzer Prize Edition. Charles Scribner's Sons,, 1939.
Price: US$59.10 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Clean With No Marks Or Highlights. Or Remainder Mark. The Book Is In Very Good Condition. Hardcover. This Book Has The A On The Copy Right Page. First Edition Scribners, N. C. Wyeth Illustrator. No Dust Jacket,- We ship from Canada and the USA. Specializing in academic, collectible and historically significant, providing the utmost quality and customer service satisfaction. For any questions feel free to email us.
Seller: bmyguest books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, E-327, 1939.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Hardcover. 8vo. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. 1939. 400 pgs. Decorated endpapers. Illustrated with Color Plates. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in decorated cloth boards with brown titles present to the spine and the front board. Boards have light shelf-wear, rubbing present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Glue mark residue from a bookplate present to the FFEP. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of his family and his best friend. But life in the Florida backwoods is harsh, and so, as his family fights off wolves, bears, and even alligators, and faces failure in their tenuous subsistence farming, Jody must finally part with his dear animal friend. There has been a film and even a musical based on this moving story, a fine work of great American literature. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 400 pages
Seller: Last Exit Books, Charlottesville, VA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [5], vii-viii, [2], 1-400, [4] pp. Buckram with brown lettering and decorations on the front board and brown lettering on the spine; blue topstain. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket; blue topstain. Illustrated endpapers and pastedowns. An illustration on the title page, with fourteen color plates done by N.C. Wyeth. Allen 216. The first edition of the Yearling with the N.C. Wyeth illustrations. Wyeth's signature style brings the tale of Jody and his little deer to life. Jacket in pieces with a tape repair on its front panel.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, viii, 400 pages. In Very Good condition with a Good Plus dust jacket. Spine tan with plant illustration and black lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$3.50". Large tear through title and author print on front cover; small section missing in upper right corner. Edgewear and small tears along jacket. Crease across back cover of jacket. Mild shelf wear and soiling to tail of textblock. Green topstain faded. Shelved under the front counter. 1372730. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. WYETH, N.C. (ill.). The Yearling.. Charles Scribners' Sons,, 1939.
Price: US$145.00 + shipping
Description: VG. the rear panel has some discoloration and wear. spine has clear type and very little wear, the front paste down is in very good condition, internally the book is bright and tight. 400pp color illus.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$149.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Pulitzer Edition. Decorated oatmeal cloth with brown lettering to front board and spine. Dust jacket with very light edgewear. With 14 full-colour illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. Nice clean copy.
Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: 400 pp. With pictures by N. C. Wyeth. Large 8vo, publisher's pictorial buckram in dust jacket. Pulitzer Prize Edition. Ink gift inscription on flyleaf; buckram a little sunned at extremities in a dust jacket heavily repaired with clear tape on recto and verso.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.. The Yearling.. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons 1939., 1939.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Description: Reprint (18th printing, May, 1939 of a book first published in April of 1938). Hardcover. A few tiny spots of foxing on the top edge, otherwise very good in very good price-clipped dustjacket with a some rubbing at the extremities and some small professionally closed tears and small restored chips. This early printing is complete with the rare gold foil wrap-around band noting the Pulitzer Prize Winners of 1939, "The Yearling" for Fiction and for Drama, "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" by Robert E. Sherwood.Scan available on request.
Seller: Larsen Books, Exeter, NSW, Australia
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: TITLE: THE YEARLING By MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS With Pictures By N. C. WYETH 1939 AUTHOR: MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS PUBLISHER - (LOCATION) / COPYRIGHT: CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NY 1939 EDITION: First Edition assumed for Scribner's Sons, there is a 1938 and 1939 date on the copyright page CATEGORY: Children, Classic, Famous Illustrators BINDING/COVER: Hardback without dust jacket COLOR: BLACK SIZE: 7 x 9½ (approximately) PAGES: 399 pages. CONDITION: The book is without a dust jacket. The outside is in good condition; there is some small sized white like paint or glue or paint to the back board near the center and a couple of the same spots to the front on the paste down (can possibly be removed). The bottom corner front edge has a minor fray. There are a couple of really minor ink like scratch lines to the fore edge. There is a name written in green ink on the front paste down and a code is written in red ink on the first front free endpaper. Book is without other marks or writings, pages are clean and book is tight and sturdy. All the pages are present in book. Good/None dust jacket condition. BACKGROUND/DESCRIPTION: ILLUSTRATED By N. C. WYETH. The book is the basis for the 1946 movie starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman. Both actors were nominated for Oscars for their roles. The movie also received nominations for best director and best picture. COMPETITIVE PRICING! Once paid, book(s) will ship immediately to customer (it's on the way), you are welcome to email about shipment date! REFUNDS: All ViewFair books, prints, and manuscript items are 100% refundable up to 14 business days after item is received. InvCodePrc E H V VIEWFAIR BOOKS: 008215
Seller: ViewFair Books, Live Oak, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo (23 x 16 cm). viii, 400 pp. Covers in oatmeal buckram cloth with brown titles to spine and upper cover, darkening to spine and joints. Text block tight and unmarked with Scribner's A and seal to copyright page, line 5 on page 196 repeating line 22 , deer and boy endpapers. Unclipped DJ (Pulitzer Prize Edition $3.50) with chips to head (5 x 16 cm), tail (6 x 1 x 2 cm), edges (several 1cm) and corners (1cm all) of spine, in Mylar.
Seller: Liberty Book Store ABAA FABA IOBA, Jupiter, FL, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than fifty years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and their wild, hard, and satisfying life in remote central Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied tale -- tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, written with humor and earthy philosophy -- The Yearling is a novel for readers of all ages. Its glowing picture of a life refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living is universal in its revelation of simple courageous people and the beliefs they must live by. Very good, first thus edition, first printing, in very good (some chipping to spine ends) in mylar-protected dust jacket. {Not remainder-marked or price=clipped} . An instant bestseller when it was released in 1938, this Pulitzer Prize winner has been read and loved by school-age children across the nation for more than eighty-four years. In this classic story of the Baxter family and their wild, hard, and satisfying life in remote central Florida, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings has written one of the great novels of our times. A rich and varied tale -- tender in its understanding of boyhood, crowded with the excitement of the backwoods hunt, with vivid descriptions of the primitive, beautiful hammock country, written with humor and earthy philosophy -- THE YEARLING is a novel for readers of all ages. Its glowing picture of a life refreshingly removed from modern patterns of living is universal in its revelation of. simple courageous people and the beliefs they must live by. With full-color pictorial endpapers and fourteen full-page illustrations throughout by N.C. Wyeth. Very good, first thus edition, first printing in buckram cloth boards with embossed cover design, in very good (some chipping to spine ends) in mylar-protected dust jacket.* Page 35 has a long, smoothed-out edge crease and a slight edge tear. {Not remainder-marked or price-clipped}. BUND
Seller: Joe Staats, Bookseller, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: Attractively bound in oatmeal-colored buckram cloth stamped in brown on the front boards and the spine. Clean and tight throughout with charming colored endpapers of Jody coaxing the Yearling along. With previous owner's name in ink on the second endpaper. And two glue splotches where newspaper articles had been attached below the half-title, leaving a faint acid shadow of the clipping. With all 14 of N.C. Wyeth's action-packed and beautifully reflective watercolors throughout. In the original Pulitzer Prize Edition dustjacket with its price of $3.50 at the top of the inside front flap. The jacket features the wraparound art work of N.C. Wyeth. With some heavy chipping at the top and bottom of the spine ends, small fingernail-sized pieces missing. Also chips and pieces missing at the corners. With two 2" closed tears along the top and bottom left-hand side of the spine. First Pulitzer Prize Edition with matching dates of 1939 and the "A" and Scribner's Seal on the copyright page
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$495.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Pulitzer Prize Edition 1939 FINE hard cover with very good+ to near fine dust jacket. "A" with colophon. Has 1939 prior owner's gift inscription. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Wm Burgett Bks and Collectibles, san diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$700.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The First Wyeth Edition. Bound in coarse linen, decorated front and spine; sans jacket. Illustrated endpapers. Inscribed by author; " For / Alicia Snyder / Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings / Feb. 13, 1940". 14 illustrations by N.C. Wyeth. A very nice clean, crisp copy without previous owners' names or other markings. ; 400 pages; All shipments through USPS insured Priority Mail.
Seller: William Chrisant & Sons, ABAA, ILAB. IOBA, ABA, Ephemera Society, Fort Lauderdale, FL, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. THE YEARLING. New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: This Edition is Limited to 770 copies. Original greenish cloth, title in gilt to spine and front (still bright), no wear to the ends and corners. Top edge bright gilt, others uncut. No names or writing on the color illustrated end papers or in the text. Signed by Rawlings and Wyeth on Limitation page. Scribner seal and letter "A" on copyright page. Slipcase showing wear to ends and corners, tape repair to closed top corner, no chemise. 400 numbered pages, clean and tight in the binding. A line was missing on page 196 (between lines 5 and 6). This copy has the corrected pages. Illustrated with 16 full page colored plates by N. C. Wyeth, two of which are charcoal and wash. Also included is a facsimile of a 2 page letter by Wyeth discussing the book (not present in the trade edition).
Seller: BookSearch, St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$1600.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 7 x 10 in. 400 pp. Green cloth boards. Limited edition of 770 copies, signed by both Rawlings and Wyeth on the limitation pg. In the original chemise and partial slipcase. Condition of the book is NEAR FINE ; covers extremely bright, clean and fresh. No shelf wear. Binding tight. Color pictoral endpapers and text are spotless. The chemise and slipcase are sunned and worn with a bit of the spine label gone on one side. Both are mildly toned. Very nice copy. NCW. RGR. ETS.
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, MARJORIE KINNAN. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Original torquoise cloth on boards. Signed on the limitation page by both Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings and N.C. Wyeth. Housed in a slip-case and wrap-around cloth covered cardboard protector. The slip-case has been replaced with an identical colored but much stronger slip-case. The protector has also been re-covered but retaining the orignal spine label. From an edition of seven hundred and seventy copies of which seven hundred and Fifty were for sale. These volumes were un-numbered. With the extra facsimile letter from Wyeth to Charlie Chaplin and the two extra illustrations. Two previous owner book-plates present - one detached and leaving a small rectangular frame of discoloration and the other still attached. Both of these are on blank free endpapers. With a brief hand written note from Rawlings on her personal stationery laid in. Top edge gilt. A very nice copy in all respects. Near Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. THE YEARLING. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$2975.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. THE YEARLING; with illustrations by N. C. Wyeth. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. FIRST AND LIMITED EDITION; OF THIS EDITION SEVEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTY COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED OF WHICH SEVEN HUNDRED AND FIFTY ARE FOR SALE; SIGNED BY BOTH RAWLINGS AND WYETH. 8vo - 9-1/2" x 7". Top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Original first state blue-green cloth covered boards with decoration stamped in gilt to front cover, and titles stamped in gilt to spine for what is a pristine, as new copy of the book; in original blue-green stiff paper chemise with a black paper paste-on stamped in gilt to spine, with minor fading to spine and a touch of wear to one of the folds, and original blue-green paper over board slipcase with minor fading and a few light touches of wear to the edges. Color pictorial endpapers. viii, 400 pp., plus [18] leaves of plates, including [2] leaves facsimile of a letter from N. C. Wyeth. This young adult novel about a young boy living in the Florida backwoods in the 1870's, and a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet, won the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel; illustrated by Wyeth with fourteen color and two black and white plates of drawings, as well as a [2] pp. facsimile letter from Wyeth; internally the book is fine. The condition of the book is FINE. The condition of the paper chemise is NEAR FINE. The condition of the slipcase is VERY GOOD +. All enclosed in a gilt tooled quarter morocco solander box made by Asprey. SCARCE; especially in such wonderful condition.
Seller: Wallace & Clark, Booksellers, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
(Wyeth, N.C) Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$3000.00 + shipping
Description: Wyeth, N.C. One of 770 copies SIGNED by the author and illustrator, with facsimile letter and 2 extra illustrations for this limited edition. Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. 400 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to. Fine copy in publisher's full blue cloth, in the original cardboard sleeve and slipcase (slipcase broken) Illustrated by N.C. Wyeth. 400 pp. 1 vols. Small 4to One of 770 copies SIGNED by the author and illustrator, with facsimile letter and 2 extra illustrations for this limited edition.
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The Yearling. Scribner's, 1939.
Price: US$3500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: (WYETH,N.C.)illus. THE YEARLING by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. NY: Charles Scribner's Sons 1939 (1939 A). 4to, bluish-green cloth, top edge gilt, Fine condition in publisher's blue slip case (case slightly rubbed on edges else sound and VG+) and in a custom-made slipcase. LIMITED TO ONLY 750 COPIES FOR SALE-SIGNED BY BOTH WYETH AND RAWLINGS. Two key facts have emerged about this edition. First, although 750 copies were printed, only 520 copies were actually bound and sent out with the binding, chemise and slip case of this version. The remaining 250 copies were bound in dark blue cloth with a darker blue slipcase and were distributed in the early 1950's. Secondly, according to letters from Rawlings to her editor, as the limited edition sheets were being printed she discovered that there was a line missing on page 196 (between lines 5 and 6). A new signature with the correction was inserted but not before some sheets were distributed. This copy has the uncorrected pages. Illustrated by Wyeth with pictorial endpapers, 14 full page color illustrations, title page decoration, plus 2 special charcoal and wash full page illustrations done for this limited edition. Also included is a facsimile of a 2 page letter by Wyeth discussing the book (not present in the trade edition). Wyeth reportedly traveled to Cross Creek, Rawlings' home, before beginning the artwork, in order to capture the essence of the area. Very scarce. Allen p. 216. Comes with original 3-page letter handwritten by Rawlings.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1939.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: SIGNED/LIMITED EDITION. This copy is SIGNED by both the Kinnan Majorie Rawlings and N.C. Wyeth the illustrator. A spectacular copy. This copy is one of the first 520 printed copies of this edition, which were bound in the original limited edition aqua-blue linen. The remaining 250 copies were bound in a darker blue cloth but do NOT contain the errors found in the first 520 copies like this one. This Limited Edition includes the facsimile letter to Chaplin by Wyeth and 2 additional illustrations. The book is in great shape and appears unread. The binding is tight with NO leaning or cocking. The pages are exceptionally clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. Overall, a superb copy SIGNED by both the author and illustrator. We buy SIGNED Rawlings First Editions.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.