The Yearling Majorie Kinnan Rawlings  
First Edition 1938 rare with this dust jacket. 
 
Decorations by Edward Shenton.
Flyleaf notes. It was just as inevitable that The Yearling would be awarded the Pulitzer Prize as it was for its central character, Jody Baxter, to become as beloved among readers as his famous literary colleague Tom Sawyer, For rarely has a novel so firmly captured the imagination and affection of thousands of readers as this distinguished American classic -  the simple, beautiful story of a backwoods Florida boy and his pet fawn.  Jody Baxter, who lives with his parents on a small poor farm in the Florida scrub country, is a real boy with his full share of virtue and faults. He frequently skips chores to go with his father and the dogs, he has a fine eye for mischief and his favourite companions are drawn from the wild, colourful Forrester family. But despite the fascination of the woods and swamp Jody is lonely, and the day he finds, and is allowed to keep an orphan fawn begins one of the happiest periods of his life. How Jody’s constant companionship with the fawn brings him heartbreak as well as happiness, and how Jody himself passes from boyhood to manhood, forms the framework of this magnificent story. Crowded with real, human characters, vivid incidents and contagious appreciation of the outdoors, this great book becomes richer with every reading.”
From this eloquent story MGM has produced a stirring Technicolour motion picture starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman with Claude Jarman JR.
 
First edition fiction hardback with dust jacket published in 1938. Not Price Clipped, No inscriptions.
Dust Jacket: The dust jacket may belong to a later version of the book, no this first edition copy of 1938, as it mentions the MGM film 1946 and Pultizer Prize in 1939.
Published by Grosset and Dunlap Publishers New York 10 
Size: 21cm x 14 cm
Number of pages:  428 Pages 
Illustrations: Decorations by Edward Shenton.
The Pulitzer Prize Novel on which MGM based its Motion Picture starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman with Claude Jarman JR. 
Contents: 
 
Biography of Author:
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (August 8, 1896 – December 14, 1953)] was an American writer who lived in rural Florida and wrote novels with rural themes and settings. 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. The book was written before the concept of young adult fiction arose but is now commonly included in teen reading lists. She found immense success in 1938 with The Yearling (also set in the Big Scrub), a story about a Florida boy and his pet deer and his relationship with his father, which she originally intended as a story for young readers. It was selected for the Book of the Month Club, and it won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. MGM purchased the rights to the film version, which was released in 1946, and it made her famous. In 1942, Rawlings published Cross Creek, an autobiographical account of her relationships with her neighbours and her beloved Florida hammocks. Cross Creek also was chosen by the Book of the Month Club and was released in an armed services edition (D-112), which was sent to servicemen during World War II.]In addition The Yearling (B-55 and S-33) and South Moon Under (724) were published in the Armed Services Editions series.
 
Condition:
Dust Jacket: Good colouring and a fragile condition with tearing, bits missing and taped repair on the reverse side of the cover.   Slight rubbing and tearing to edges and corners. Wear on the edges and tears to top and bottom of spine. Foxing and age-related marks and wear on the reserve side dust jacket. 
Boards:   Slight age-related wear and a faint mark in the middle of the front board.  Green boards with titles and lettering in black.
Binding: Leaning 
Spine: Wear and bumping to all edges.
Pages.  All pages complete, clean and age-toned at the edges. Some marks and indentations on extreme page fore edges. Front and rear free endpapers age toned.  A good book inside much better than the dust jacket and board covers. 
Condition  is subjective and photos are included to help you judge the condition.