The first edition of this classic Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings book was published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1938. It was 428 pages long, and the original retail price was $2.50. The first edition identification points are as follows: The first printing has the letter "A" and Scribner's seal on the copyright page.
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Picture of the 1938 first edition dust jacket for The Yearling.
The true first edition dust jacket has "A Book-of-the-Month Club Selection" across the bottom. This blurb causes some confusion. It does NOT mean that the book or jacket is a book club edition. Rather it just means that the Book-of-the-Month Club planned to make a book club edition at the time the first edition was published, and the publisher was advertising that fact. Later printing dust jackets do not have the book-of-the-month club blurb.
Other first edition points for books by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings include: Cross Creek.
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