THE YEARLING

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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. N° de ref. del artículo 000992

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