first edition Hardcover
1938 · New York
by RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. First edition. Decorations by Edward Shenton. Small soil mark at the foot of the spine, toning at board edges, very good in an about good only dust jacket with the panels detached from the spine (but present), a long narrow chip on the rear panel (affecting a bit of text), a toned spine, and several interior tape reinforcements. *The New Yorker* artist, Claude Smith's copy, with his pencil name "CLAUDE" on front pastedown. Winner of the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Basis of the 1946 film of the same name starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman and with Claude Jarman, Jr., who won an (truncated)