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Lot 212
Sale 697 - Fine Books and Manuscripts including Americana
Nov 6, 2019
10:00AM CT
Live / Chicago
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$500 -
700
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$406
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Lot Description
RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan (1896-1953). -- N.C. WYETH (1882-1945), illustrator. The Yearling. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1939.
8vo. 14 full-page full-color illustrations, monochrome plates, 2 p. facsimile letter, all after N. C. Wyeth. Original publisher's blue cloth gilt (small abrasion with loss to upper corner front pastedown, upper hinge repaired, short split to lower hinge, otherwise fine).
LIMITED EDITION, one of 770 unnumbered copies SIGNED BY RAWLINGS AND WYETH. Of this edition, 520 were bound in aqua cloth and issued; the remaining 250 were bound in darker blue (as here), and distributed in the early 1950s. The present copy with the corrected text on p. 196.