The Yearling.

RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.

$3,000.00

Item Number: 116898

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper in the year of publication, “For Mark David Corser with good wishes Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings April 1938.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Rare and desirable signed, especially in the year of publication.

The Yearling was Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' second novel that “produced one of literature’s most poignant and convincing portraits of childhood” (DAB). “Rawlings’ evocative descriptions of rural Florida and its people make The Yearling regional fiction at its best, yet the novel is universal in its depiction of the human experience. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and made into a 1946 motion picture starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman” (Silvey, 551).