[Rarebooks] FS: Lovely SIGNED First Edition of THE YEARLING

[Charles Agvent]

RAWLINGS, Marjorie Kinnan. THE YEARLING. New York: Charles Scribner's 
Sons, 1938. First Edition. Pulitzer Prize winning novel made into a 
film. INSCRIBED in the year of publication and SIGNED by Rawlings on the 
front endpaper: "For/Gladys and Clifford Lyons/Marjorie Kinnan 
Rawlings/March 1938." Dr. Clifford Lyons of the University of Florida 
testified on Rawlings's behalf in the Cross Creek trial when the author 
was sued for invasion of privacy by some of those she wrote about in her 
book CROSS CREEK. An account of the trial may be found in Patricia 
Nassif Acton's INVASION OF PRIVACY: THE CROSS CREEK TRIAL OF MARJORIE 
KINNAN RAWLINGS. Scarce to find a signed first edition in this 
condition, especially with an association. Slight browning to endpapers 
and a little foxing to the spine. Near Fine in a Near Fine correct 
dustwrapper with a short closed tear and a little foxing at the rear. 
(#020249)        $3,500

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