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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. This is a Very Good (Plus) to Near Fine copy of the First Edition (Scribner's "A" on CP). Green cloth binding with silver lettering on the spine and a decorative panel featuring an egret on the front cover. Clean text; 368 pages. Yellow topstain, others rough-cut. This copy has been SIGNED by associates of Rawlings: Norton Baskin (her husband); and Dessie Smith Prescott, Idella Parker and Jake Glisson. In 1992 South Moon came out with a limited edition with the same signatures; Quercus speculates that this First Edition copy was signed at that time. The lovely decorations are by Edward Shenton. Spine slightly darkened and with the silver title rubbed; else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped, but there is no price; possibly a later addition. A moderate amount of edgewear, with several small chips, but colors remain very bright and it presents very nicely. In an archival plastic protector. Signed by Husband & Others. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good Plus. Illus. by Edward Shenton. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. First Edition with "A" to copyright page. Signed by Rawlings with brief inscription to previous owner at front fly leaf. Octavo. 368 pp. Illustrated dust jacket with "$2.50" price present. Green boards stamped in silver; dark topstain; illustrated endpapers. Dust jacket worn and chipped along edges and folds with toning to spine and tape reinforcement to verso. Boards worn with mild soiling to edges, additional wear and a few chips along spine. Binding is sound and pages unmarked. Even with the flaws still a Very Good signed copy of Rawlings' reflection on her experiences living in the Florida town.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. CROSS CREEK. Signed. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942, New York, 1942.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by Author. "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water". First Edition with the Scribner's "A" on the copyright page, of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' classic memoir of life in the Florida hamlet of Cross Creek, Signed by her on the half-title page. 8vo. 368 pp. A near fine copy in green cloth, green titles ruled in silver, in a bright, fresh Robert Camp, Jr. designed neatly price-clipped pictorial dustwrapper with some minor archival restoration at the heel and crown of the spine. Illustrations by Edward Shenton throughout. "It is hard to see how anyone can read Cross Creek without pleasure amounting to glee". The Atlantic Monthly. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. CROSS CREEK COOKERY - Signed. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942.
Price: US$950.00 + shipping
Description: Robert Camp. First Edition. Signed by Author. New York: Charles Scribner, 1942. First Edition. A fine copy in near fine Robert Camp illustrated dustwrapper that has been skillfully & artfully restored at the spine extremities.8vo.,230pp. Published in 1942 by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Cross Creek Cookery was a complimentary publication to her book Cross Creek, published in 1942. Florida painter Robert Camp provided various illustrations for Cross Creek Cookery. The same image that appears on the dust jacket was also printed on the linen cover of the original printing as seen in the photos. Various elements from The Actual CROSS CREEK are sketched throughout the cookbook amidst her well-sought after recipes such as Florida Backwoods Biscuits and Grandma Traphagen's Sugar Cookies. As per the words on the flap of the dustjacket ".THIS is not a cook book in the traditionalI manner, but it does contain over 250 recipes and some 30 menus for breakfast, luncheon, dinner, and camp dinners. It is,as the title suggests, a mouth-watering, evocative, and charmingly conversational discussion of cooking at Cross Creek. She has bound together her recipes by delightful little vignettes in the true Rawlings style. Grandma Traphagen's Sugar Cookies bring a nostalgic memory of the old time cooky jar in the farmhouse kitchen". A precious addition for any Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings collector.
Seller: TBCL The Book Collector's Library, Montreal, QC, Canada
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek Ccokery. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1942.
Price: US$1150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Printing; dj w/moderate wear, a few tape repairs to top edge of jacket, unclipped price, in mylar ($2.50); owner's plate; 368 clean, unmarked pages; pictorial end papers. Has Scribner "A". Size: 8 vo
Seller: Dorley House Books, Inc., Hagerstown, MD, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek Cookery. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1942.
Price: US$1200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 230 pages, Approx. 5 3/4" x 8 1/2", First Edition with Scribner's A on copyright page, Illus. colorful cloth hardcover with light wear to extremities, illus. endpapers, content clean with b/w illus., a Wonderful Inscription on front fly by the author to her friends: " For Boo and Ester - and may God have mercy on your stomachs! Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - December 1942.¿ Signed soon after publication. DJ has a few small chips at top edge of front & light wear to extremities. DJ has price of $3.00 & is in a protected mylar jacket. This is a one of a kind of her famous cook book!
Seller: Vivian J. Moore, Cumming, GA, U.S.A.
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. CROSS CREEK. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1942.
Price: US$1562.50 + shipping
Description: In the first issue dustwrapper. Illustrations by Edward Shenton. "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water." INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Rawlings on the front blank: "For/H. E. DeCamp/ from/Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings/Cross Creek/February 1943." Additionally SIGNED by Robert Camp Jr., the dustwrapper artist, below his printed name at the bottom front flap of the dustwrapper, and on the half-title page by Norton Baskin (Rawlings's husband), Dessie Smith Prescott (her friend, Floridas first professional woman guide and the first female licensed pilot in the state), Idella Parker (her maid), and J. T. "Jake" Glisson (a confidante and protege of his neighbor, Rawlings, who encouraged him to write and draw. He was supposedly the model for Jody in THE YEARLING.) All the additional signatures were acquired by Philip S. May, Jr., son of Philip May Sr., Rawlings's attorney in the Cross Creek trials. The respective families developed a close, lasting relationship. Exceptional collection of autographs. Most of the silver on the spine still intact. Very Good in a Very Good dustwrapper with a closed tear and snag at the bottom front and a bit of edgewear
Seller: Charles Agvent, est. 1987, ABAA, ILAB, Fleetwood, PA, U.S.A.
Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. Cross Creek Cookery. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1942.
Price: US$2789.97 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Inscribed by the author as "Marjorie" to her mother-in-law in the year of publication. It is additionally signed by Norton Baskin (her husband), Idella Parker (her maid), and Robert Camp, the illustrator. There is some darkening to the page edges. The dust jacket is slightly worn at the edges and is thus also in better than very good condition. Copies signed as "Marjorie" are rare, but this copy is unique- it is inscribed to her mother in-law-thanking her for the cheese grits recipe (found on page 73).
Seller: Grove Antiquarian, Miami, FL, U.S.A.