Where The Red Fern Grows: The Story of Two Dogs and a Boy.

RAWLS, Wilson.

Item Number: 89976

Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, 1961.

First edition of one of the great classics of children’s literature. Octavo, original cloth. Fine in near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear. Jacket design by Reisie Lonette. An exceptional example.

“A rewarding book . . . [with] careful, precise observation, all of it rightly phrased....Very touching" (The New York Times Book Review). It was made into a 1974 film starring Stewart Petersen, James Whitmore, Beverly Garland, and Jack Ging. It was followed by a sequel in 1992, which starred Wilford Brimley, Chad McQueen, Lisa Whelchel, and Karen Carlson. The film was remade in 2003 and starred Joseph Ashton, Dabney Coleman, Ned Beatty and Dave Matthews.