The Yearling

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.

The Yearling won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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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.

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