May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 220

Price Realized: $ 4,560
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
WITH AN ORIGINAL DRAWING BY WYETH (CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling. Illustrated by N. C. Wyeth, with pictorial endpapers, 14 full-page color plates, title-page decoration, plus 2 charcoal-and-wash illustrations and a 2-page facsimile letter by Wyeth discussing the book, both specially bound into this limited edition. 8vo, publisher's gilt-pictorial blue-green cloth, a little browning to joints and spine, otherwise bright; board chemise and slipcase, both worn; owner's book label on front pastedown. New York: Scribner's 1939
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Additional Details

one of 750 copies of the first limited edition signed by rawlings and wyeth. this copy inscribed and signed by wyeth to the owner with an ink sketch of jody on the half title. First state, with the missing line of text on page 196 between lines 5 and 6.