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The Yearling
by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good +
- Seller
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Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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About This Item
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. Hardcover. Very good +. First Edition 427 pp. Octavo. Original cream coloured boards. Green lettering on the spine. Green lettering and illustration on the front boards. Head and tail edge trimmed. Edges are dust soiled. Light crease on back endpaper. The dust jacket has not been price clipped and is in very good condition with some staining on the back. Pages are unmarked and overall condition of the book is very good +. This book was created before the concept of a young adult novel existed, but it has become a standard in that genre. A boy adopts an orphaned fawn, and the novel chronicles the year they spend together. The Yearling is a Pulitzer Prize winning novel and would be a wonderful gift for a young adult, or someone who is young at heart. Read the book, and then watch the Academy Award winning movie. 1938
Synopsis
The Yearling is a 1938 novel written by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1939. Rawlings's editor was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other literary luminaries. She had submitted several projects to Perkins for his review, and he rejected them all. He instructed her to write about what she knew from her own life, and the result of her taking his advice was The Yearling.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Aquila Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 143789
- Title
- The Yearling
- Author
- Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1938
- Keywords
- Literature|Young Adult|First Editions|Teens
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Glossary
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- Tail
- The heel of the spine.
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Soiled
- Generally refers to minor discoloration or staining.
- Octavo
- Another of the terms referring to page or book size, octavo refers to a standard printer's sheet folded four times, producing...
- Price Clipped
- When a book is described as price-clipped, it indicates that the portion of the dust jacket flap that has the publisher's...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
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