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1939 Random House (Modern Library) Edition

The Yearling

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Random House (Modern Library), 1939. Modern library (reprint) edition.
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Book
Very Good
Jacket
Good
Jacket note
The dust jacket grades Good and is protected in a new archival mylar cover, included.
Our ref
RCB-f64b34c68b80
What we checked, and where to see itRCB-f64b34c68b80 · 9 photographs of this copy
✓
True first is Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1938, with 'A' and Scribner seal on copyright page
examined on the copy in hand
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This copy is the Modern Library reprint (series number 246), published by Random House
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Modern Library title page reads 'THE MODERN LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST BOOKS', not Scribner's
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Copyright page carries only Scribner/Rawlings copyright dates (1939/1938) and the Random House / Modern Library colophon
examined on the copy in hand
✓
Jacket priced $1.25 with 'New York 22' postal zone, dating this ML issue to c.1940s-50s
examined on the copy in hand
Flaws, each one named
1
chipping and loss to jacket spine head, photo 1/7
noted on the copy in hand
2
closed tears and chipping to jacket at crown, photo 2/6
noted on the copy in hand
3
edge wear and small tears along jacket bottom edge, photo 7
noted on the copy in hand
4
fraying and loss to cloth at spine head and tail, photo 8
noted on the copy in hand
5
rubbing/soiling to jacket, photo 7
noted on the copy in hand
6
top page-block edge toned/soiled, photo 9
noted on the copy in hand
This copy
1939 Random House (Modern Library) Edition

What a true first shows: Scribner's, New York, 1938, cloth in jacket

Included with this copy: a new archival mylar jacket protector (fitted, included).

Photographs show the exact copy you will receive. Every flaw we found is listed above; if we missed one, the return is on us.