8vo. In-text illustrations by Edward Shenton. Original cream cloth stamped in green; in unrestored dust jacket (price-clipped, some very slight rubbing or soiling).

FIRST TRADE EDITION, with Scribner's seal and "A" on copyright page. SIGNED BY RAWLINGS on half-title. In a later issue dust jacket with media reviews on the rear panel. Rawlings's editor, Maxwell Perkins, rejected several of her projects before advising her to write about what she knew from her own life. Her resulting work, The Yearling, would go on to win the 1939 Pulitzer Prize for the Novel.