The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, First Edition, 1938

Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Illustrated by Edward Shenton. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1938. First edition. 8to. Rebound in full green leather with gilt tooling, titles, and stamps to the spine. New green marbled endpapers. Presented with an archival matching slipcase.  Presented is a first edition of The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The book was published by Charles Scribner’s Sons, in New York, 1938. Being a Scribner’s publication, this first edition printing has the Scribner’s “A” on the copyright page. It is illustrated throughout with black and white illustrations by Edward Shenton. It is presented rebound, in a beautiful full green leather, with raised bands, gilt stamps, and gilt titles to the spine. It has matching green marbled endpapers and all edges are gilded. The book comes with a matching, archival slipcase. Rawlings' editor at Charles Scribner’s Sons was Maxwell Perkins, who also worked with F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, and other l