Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953)

The Yearling

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939. 18th Printing. Hardcover with Dust Jacket.

The bindings are tight and square. Text clean, light even age-toning. Minimal shelf handling wear. Two gift inscriptions.

The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939  and was later made into a movie of the same name. The book was written long before the concept of young-adult fiction, but is now commonly included in teen-reading lists.

Ref: Gardner, 829; Bigelow, Ahearn, 528

Item #19350

Price: $19.95