The Yearling

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Fine/Near Fine. First printing with Scribner "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. A fine copy in a near fine dust jacket. Octavo (6 1/4 x 5 5/8 inches; 209 x 143 mm.). [viii], 428 pp. With 34 woodcut chapter-headings (including illustration on title-page). Publisher's cream linen over boards, front cover decorated and titled in green, spine lettered in green. Dust jacket with just a couple of tiny closed tears on the lower edge.

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' beloved 1938 novel, set in rural Florida. The Yearling follows the story of Jody Baxter, a child who becomes friends with a fawn (truncated) after his father kills the fawn’s mother. The book was the best selling novel the year it was released and would win the Pulitzer Prize. Translated into over twenty languages, The Yearling was also adapted into a 1946 film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, who would both receive Academy Award nominations for their performances. “The thing about The Yearling, its great claim to distinction, is that it is able to make so much of simple, homely events” (Contemporary New York Times review). Illustrations were completed by artist, author, and educator Edward Shenton (1895-1977). Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. (Inventory #: 6398)