The Yearling.

RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan.

$7,800.00

Item Number: 147651

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938.

First edition of the author’s Pulitzer Prize-winning classic. Octavo, original cloth. Presentation copy, uniquely and lengthily inscribed by the author across three pages; on the front free endpaper, the second free endpaper and its verso, “For Harry W. Zollars Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings – A writer loses all rights to elucidate a book, once he has corrected the last proofs. Anything unexplained at that point must go forever unsaid. Yet he may still offer a private opinion, as on the work of any other. In my opinion, this book about Jody, is in reality Penny’s book. Penny was once Jody, and Jody will become something of a Penny, and in Penny I have offered as much of my own philosophy of life as I am every likely to offer in any single character. M.K.R. – September 1939.” Near fine in a very good dust jacket. A unique example.

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).