Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
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$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$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.
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.