Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. First edition, second printing. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An unclipped jacket beautifully designed by Robert Camp Jr. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. The jacket is missing the $2.50 price (in red) on inside flap so it's not a true first. There is some tape on jacket spine with small piece missing. Hardcover: Very Good+ New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1942. Includes the "A" and Scribner colophon on copyright page. Green cloth with silver emblem and lettering on spine. No markings or writing in the book, 368 pp.
Rawlings classic memoir of life in the Florida hamlet of Cross Creek. A wonderful copy! "Cross Creek is a bend in a country road, by land, and the flowing of Lochloosa Lake into Orange Lake, by water."
Her best known work, The Yearling, about a boy who adopts an orphaned fawn, won a Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1939 and was later made into a movie of the same name.
